Preserved Topic: what you get when you buy a spam cd (Page 1 of 1)

this was on slashdot

Recently over here in The Netherlands, the spam versus anti-spam 'war' has hardened. More professional spamming coming from a handful of hard-core spammers utilizing bulletproof hosting in India, chained open proxies, more and more false whois information, etc. One of the more known anti-spam people has been sent one of the subjects of those spams: a CD with millions of e-mail addressess of 'individuals' and hundreds of thousands of 'businesses'... Rejo Zenger has done an analysis of such a CD, which is fuelling new debate as to why the recent EU anti-spam directive was weakened because of businesses complaining or indicating that spam wasn't a big issue for them.

be sure to read the analysis. very interesting

Finally got my new internet connection yesterday.... new email and so on. My jaw just dropped when I configured my email and I had 56 Spam mails to start off with, after all no one had my new addy.

Thought I pass this on, works like a charm to sort out spam

Mailwasher

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