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Spam Bits

Let's mush a few things together into a nice pink rectangular solid: ipandithurts writes "The FTC Chair Timothy Muris doubts the ability of the "CAN SPAM" law to stop SPAM." ElementCDN writes "The Ottawa Citizen has a story on Bernard Balan the King of Spam. Bernard has closed up shop and moved to cottage country near Huntsville, Ontario." CactusMan writes "CTV (among others) is reporting that a Ontario trio has been named in a suit filed by Yahoo under the new CAN-SPAM legislation. Yahoo is claiming that the father and two sons were 'responsible for sending millions of unsolicited messages to users of the company's e-mail service.'" ilsa writes "According to this AP article, as much as 19% of e-mail sent by commercial entities never reaches its destination. 'Promotions and greeting cards were the types of messages most likely to disappear, the study found.' Although this study may have been intended to be alarming, forgive me for thinking this may not be a bad thing." Reader chrisbtoo responds to an earlier spam story: "In today's story about Spam solutions, monstroyer challenged people to crack the Spam Interceptor Captcha. Turns out it was pretty easy." Finally, we can't fail to mention an attempt at making the world's largest spam musubi.

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  1. Terrorists hiding in their nests by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    All right, we've got 7 canisters of CN20.

    I say we roll them in there and nerve gas the whole fucking nest!

    US, Europe - together. Who could stand against us?

  2. YOU FAIL IT!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You got thegre. Or marKet. Therefore,

  3. MOD PARENT UP YOU IDIOTS!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I love reading about people's interest in cereal.

  4. way to go, slashdot! by WormholeFiend · · Score: 0, Troll

    linking numerous articles in one post, on the off chance that someone *might* read one of them...

    but of course, a couple of slashdot readers will click on at least one of those article links, thereby justifying the linking of numerous articles in a single post... about SPAMMING?!

    arrrrhg
    --

  5. Evacuating procedures in the military by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I'm revising our (civilian) lab's evacuation procedures.

    How do you military guys keep count on your people when things get confusing? Any advise?

  6. Re:Don't forget... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    whoops. i was going to type something but all of a sudden i have to take a huge dump. BRB!