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The New Yorker On Spam
aqk notes an article in the Aug. 6th New Yorker surveying the spam problem up-to-date. The New Yorker may not be exactly the MSM, but it is pretty influential. The author got only one fact wrong that I noticed: Canter and Siegel's seminal spam was propagated through Usenet and not email. Still, it's a good look at the history of spam and the scale of the problem today. The amount of spam that "spam king" Robert Alan Soloway, indicted under the CAN-SPAM Act, is accused of sending over a period of four years is now pumped out about every 30 seconds, around the clock, around the world.
Who died and elected him Spam King? (Not objecting, just hopeful that the previous Spam King died.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Ask your friends to stop using subjects like:
"You will be able to penetrate deeper"
"15% discount automatically on BOTH watches!"
At least in gmail they are still around, and gmail will let you search for them easily. I am more worried about my university bouncing legit email as spam and I never see it... No way to find those.
The three letter acronym MSM can refer to:
Maastricht School of Management, in Maastricht, the Netherlands
Metal-semiconductor-metal junction.
Miami Sound Machine
Men who have sex with men
Million Skirted Men, a movement advocating men's right to wear skirts.