As a follow up to my previous post “Is There Anything Redeemable About Spam?” I want to share a news story I ran across today in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The article describes two brothers, college students, who are being indicted for a massive spam operation. Apparently, they designed software to gather student e-mail […]
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Is There Anything Redeemable about Spam?
For those of you expecting a long rant about the negative aspects of technological spam – about the annoyance of it, the wasted time spent on it, its contribution to the evils of the world, and its negative impact on the environment (yes, spam is not green – see an article about it here and […]