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CDT Releases New Report on Origins of Spam

Posted by michael on from the plumbing-the-depths dept.

Carnth writes "CDT has released a new report based on a six month project entitled "Why Am I Getting All This Spam?" The results offer Internet users insights about what online behavior results in the most unsolicited commercial email and also debunk some of the myths about spam." A very good report - read it. There's also a story about yet another sleazy spammer in Ohio.

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  1. Other amazing discoveries... by psoriac · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, it was announced today that after careful study, researchers confirmed that fire is hot and pointy objects hurt.

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  2. Spam makes money? by ShwAsasin · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was considering moving into the spam market, but decided that was too controversial. I opted to start pornography business instead.

  3. Re:Burn in Hell, Son of Spam! by ToadSprocket · · Score: 4, Funny
    And as for angry e-mails and junk mail, he said, "I can give as good as I get."

    I smell a challenge.

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  4. The gauntlet has been thrown! by douglips · · Score: 4, Funny
    None of this puts a chill into Childs, who said he has nothing to fear from anti-spammers. "I don't ask for understanding from anybody. I follow the law." And as for angry e-mails and junk mail, he said, "I can give as good as I get."

    Geez, I sure hope he's right. It sure would be a shame if his physical mailbox overflowed with a gazillion free catalogs.

    Did anyone explain to him what happened to Alan Ralsky?

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  5. Re:happy 1.3 user by ToadSprocket · · Score: 5, Funny
    Amen to that.

    I had been using the 1.3 beta for weeks before the release version. "Yes, this is junk, I am going to mark it as such and then sit here and laugh at you." I felt so... impotent I guess. All of these naked women, and nothing I could do about it. But yeah, since 1.3 came out, I am laying more pipe than Charlie Sheen in his heyday, and not with hookers either.

    1.3 kicks ass.

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