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it's actually a pretty clever idea in a country where it seems to be impossible to get the CONgress to do anything about this theft of service spammers engage in.
the woman who started this company about 6 mos or a year ago used to be the general counsel for mail-abuse.org, the original anti-spam organization.
> P.S. Before I read your post I'd missed out somehow on the
> responses to this spam, or the spam itself, so I looked it
> up in the archives. That was a pretty good story the Post
> published, and I hope the ANSWER people's gimmick worked to
> give it widespread attention.
spam is spam, i don't care how 'noble' the cause, it is rude and uncivilized to send spam. i know there are plenty of lefties who think it is just fine to dump completely off-topic and irrelevent posts to any list they can find in the interest of furthering the revolution, but i delete them unread as quickly as you delete a snit-post.
i once ran a small list for some local activists that was ddedicated to a particular topic. within weeks i was getting more damn poorly written, poorly formated mail from people i'd never met, about causes i didn't care about, it was disgusting.
and just like with commercial spam, how effective can it possibly be? typically only dupes and fools (and only a small percentage of those) fall for commercial spam, while it alienates the vast majority of recipients.
-- no Onan