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A Conference About Spam
zonker writes "January 17th will be the first (annual?) meeting of the Spam Conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The informal meeting will feature Paul Graham, John Graham-Cumming, John "Cap'n Crunch" Draper among others (possibly including ESR though he hasn't yet confirmed). The free conference will consist of a number of talks about new ways to combat the growing spam problem, after which everyone's going out and getting some Chinese food. Should be an informative and fun meeting and a chance to meet some interesting people."
...and forward this message and Slashdot page to ten of your e-mail contacts, you shall be granted eternal life!
Also, you shall be given a free Penis Enlargement, millions of dollars from your Nigerian friends and find out how to lose 50 pounds of weight in less than 5 seconds.
Yes, it is true!!!
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
This is a great idea! If only more people knew about this conference, we could accomplish a great deal of progress towards eliminating the problem of spam.
What we need is a simple way of notifying via email many people at one time, presumably with a form letter and flashy subject line. But sending all these emails at one time will burden our server, so we need to use a group of mail servers around the world, including the less-populated ones used in foreign countries such Korea and Africa, to help distribute the message.
If everyone who gets this message passes it on to relatives and friends, surely something good can come from it!