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NYT on Spam Cops

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the game-is-on dept.

yet another coward writes "The New York Times reports on new measures against spam. (Sperm sample required, sorry ladies) Microsoft has increased efforts to track and prosecute spammers. Hotmail receives 2 billion (2 * 10^9) spam messages per day. In a twist of weirdness, the Direct Marketing Association is funding investigators who cooperate with the FBI on spam investigations. Spamhaus also gets a mention."

8 of 215 comments (clear)

  1. Only 2 billion spams a day? by messiuh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jeeze, my Optonline single account gets about that per day.

    Come to think of it, I suppose if I got that many free samples of Viagra, I could start my own Pharmaceuticual company.

  2. Three cheers... by ideatrack · · Score: 4, Funny

    for Mr McBride.

    Now that's a /. first.

    1. Re:Three cheers... by betelgeuse-4 · · Score: 4, Funny

      'can we call him "Sterl"?' No, because somebody might get confused and start thinking that SCO is run by Mr. Darling McBride. Which would be a very bad thing.

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      Decode these
  3. Re: (Sperm sample required, sorry ladies) by karlandtanya · · Score: 4, Funny

    What makes you a lady can't acquire sperm samples on demand and in larger quantity than any given gentleman can produce on his own?

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    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
  4. He used to be a *what?* by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 4, Funny


    > When he hunted down escaped prisoners for the United States Marshals Service

    "I didn't send that spam!"

    "I don't care!"

    Damned one-armed spammers...

  5. Sperm Sample??? by Sinus0idal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh dear, worse than spam is hundreds of thousands of Slashdotter sperm samples winging their way to NYT...

  6. confuzzled by bestguruever · · Score: 5, Funny

    oh man, Mr. McBride and Microsoft in the same story and its actually a good thing? My head hurts.

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    if you think this is bad, you should have seen my last sig
  7. ..they are actually purchasing pills.. by burgburgburg · · Score: 4, Funny
    Increasingly they are actually purchasing pills and responding to offers of get-rich-quick schemes to track down the spammers.

    Of course, they'd probably stop investigating if any of the products actually worked. Then they'd stay at home in their mansions and satisfy their wives and their wives friends and neighbor ladies and ...I'm walking away from the computer now.