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[Maria Winslow <maria.winslow AT windows-linux.com>]

A spam farm! Even William Gibson couldn't have made that up 15 years ago!

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 12:39 pm, ya'll wrote:
> Hey folks!  Just curious if anyone got a bunch of spam from useless
> companies possibly attempting to defraud consumers?  Oddly, all have
> been registered to US states, not EU or Asian companies.
>
> RR won't confirm if their anti-spam server is working, or not.
>
> It pissed me off enough to forward all them to both the NC AG, and the
> respective AG's where the domains are registered.  I doubt much can be
> done about it, but it made me feel better, and if the AG's get enough
> consumer fraud complaints, just MAYBE in time they will have the teeth
> to shut the companies down, or at least fine them into non-existence.
>
> Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing the spam bastards spend some time in
> jail, but that is a pipe dream at the moment.
>
> I read an article recently which reported 90% of the spam is sent by
> only about half dozen people.  One person in particular is responsible
> for something like 25%, and owns a spam farm in a state with even more
> lax regulations than NC.  I wish I had bookmarked the link.
>
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