Paid To Spam

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 14, 2004 @02:39AM from the shoot-now dept.

Lathiat writes "It seems that spammers have taken a new distributed approach to sending spam, and you get paid for it. Virtual MDA will pay you $1 per CPU hour their program is running to relay spam around the world. Obviously this is not something you should do, most users are all to familiar with the atrocity of sorting through up to hundreds of spams a day just to find one real email, Although it has been previously reported that some users love spam, I for one don't. Is there any way end users can fight back against people like this?" At $1/hour, this sounds like a low-gain way to infuriate both your friends and perfect strangers.

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Sounds like a bad idea by thebra · 2004-04-14 02:40 · Score: 5, Funny

and plus I'm still waiting for my check from All-Advantage!
Re:Thousands per year by gowen · 2004-04-14 02:47 · Score: 5, Funny

Imagine all the toys that could be bought with it.
Forget that, Imagine how much I'll be able to extend my penis...

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Both your friends? by carlos_benj · 2004-04-14 03:16 · Score: 5, Funny

At $1/hour, this sounds like a low-gain way to infuriate both your friends and perfect strangers.

Hey, how'd you know I only have two friends...?

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