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Anti-Spammers Wage E-War

Posted by michael on from the no-quarter-asked-or-given dept.

ncstockguy writes "To its credit the Hartford Courant followed up with a second article this time from the perspective of an anti-spammer." The first story was about the life and times of a spam king.

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  1. Re:Never actually noticed.... by Chilles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Legitimate businesses usually refrain from actual spamming because they are easy to find and easy to get back at.

    A major dutch newspaper (I'm dutch) once sent several tens of thousand e-mails through a known spammer advertising subscriptions. They received more than 10 thousand complaint e-mails, a few people canceled the subscription they already had and all public e-mail adresses they had were subscribed to so much e-mail/spam lists by disgruntled recipients of their spam that their internal e-mail system got overloaded several times during the following month.

  2. A thought ... by robstercraws · · Score: 5, Funny


    This article made me think of a slightly modified version of the question asked in the article yesterday about The True Story of Website Results: If you could press a button and kill a spammer on the other side of the world, would you do it? And would you even need to be paid the million dollars? ;-)