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Inappropriate Spam Reaching Children?

Posted by simoniker on from the little-billy-offered-viagra dept.

peeweejd writes "Wired has an article stating that four out of five children receive inappropriate spam e-mail touting get-rich-quick schemes, and almost half receive spam linking to pornographic materials. Should spammers be held responsible for the spams they send out? Can someone sue a spammer for offering to sell 'adult only' items/services to children?" There are more details from survey originator Symantec's press release - and yes, Symantec does sell mail filtering software.

2 of 624 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Looking for people interested in First Posts! by i+am+lose+cannon!! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's always polite to suffix invalid email addresses with .inv (eg: trashcan@hotmail.com.inv) because generally, someone does in fact own them.

  2. Re:Should spammers be held responsible for the spa by mythr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    wow, doesnt take much to be insightful on this site, does it?

    Nope.