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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.
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.