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The mounting onslaught of email pitches for porn, pills, and penis enlargement has some techno-pundits declaring that spam is on the verge of destroying the Internet. In Spam Kings, author and investigative journalist Brian McWilliams delivers a compelling account of the cat-and-mouse game played by spam entrepreneurs (including the notorious Davis Wolfgang Hawke, "Dr. Fatburn," and Scott Richter) in search of easy fortunes and the cyber-vigilantes who are trying to stop them.

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January 22, 2005

Readers respond to Microsoft spam story

Salon.com readers wrote some interesting letters in response to my recent piece about Microsoft's role in the war on spam.

(I must disagree with the first one, however. The article doesn't blame Microsoft for originally creating the spam problem. Instead, it said the company is arguably responsible for the current state of affairs.)

One reader asks whether Microsoft's numerous lawsuits against spammers are effectively SLAPP suits (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation). If so, it would be ironic.

Meanwhile, Microsoft's new anti-spyware tool gets a negative review in a piece Friday from AP technology writer Matthew Fordahl.

Posted by brian at January 22, 2005 8:20 PM

 

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