Spam Research Six Month Report

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday April 12, 2003 @03:41AM from the porn-nigeria-and-unrequited-crushes dept.

Zoomer writes "Every day, millions of people receive dozens of unsolicited commercial e-mails (UCE), known popularly as 'spam.' Some users see spam as a minor annoyance, while others are so overwhelmed with spam that they are forced to switch e-mail addresses. This has led many Internet users to wonder: How did these people get my e-mail address? In the summer of 2002, CDT embarked on a project to attempt to determine the source of spam. To do so, we set up hundreds of different e-mail addresses, used them for a single purpose, and then waited six months to see what kind of mail those addresses were receiving. The results offer Internet users insights about what online behavior results in the most spam. The results also debunk some of the myths about spam." Update: 04/12 15:47 GMT by CN : About a minute after this went live, I found that michael posted this earlier. Mea culpa.

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Dupe by SuperQ · 2003-04-12 03:45 · Score: 1, Redundant

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/19/173624 9

atleast this one is in html form, not pdf.

I saw it in the Mysterious Future, but there still isn't a good way to report dupes before they go live. I think you should open the thread for comments before it goes live, and nuke/archive/whatever those comments after it's live.
He's in trouble now... by AndyMouse+GoHard · 2003-04-12 05:10 · Score: 0, Redundant

"For further information, please contact Ari Schwartz at the Center for Democracy & Technology, 202-637-9800, ari@cdt.org"

Hmmm... just after a section on disguising emails. Guess he'll need a new address soon:)

Bill

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