Tangled Up in Spam. James Gleick.
by Gleick, James; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 63Business. Publisher: New York Times Magazine, 2003ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Consumer protection | Internet -- Law and legislation | Internet advertising | Internet filtering software | Junk e-mailDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The spam epidemic has just a few themes and variations: phone cards, cable descramblers, vacation prizes. Easy credit, easy weight loss, free vacations, free Girlz. Inkjet cartridges and black-market Viagra, get-rich-quick schemes and every possible form of pornography. The crush of these messages on the world's networks is now numbered in billions per day. One anti-spam service measured more than five million unique spam attacks in December [2002], almost three times as many as a year earlier. The well is poisoned." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) This article discusses the disruption spam causes the Internet community and how all efforts to put an end to it have failed.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Tangled Up in Spam, Feb. 9, 2003; pp. 42-47.
"The spam epidemic has just a few themes and variations: phone cards, cable descramblers, vacation prizes. Easy credit, easy weight loss, free vacations, free Girlz. Inkjet cartridges and black-market Viagra, get-rich-quick schemes and every possible form of pornography. The crush of these messages on the world's networks is now numbered in billions per day. One anti-spam service measured more than five million unique spam attacks in December [2002], almost three times as many as a year earlier. The well is poisoned." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) This article discusses the disruption spam causes the Internet community and how all efforts to put an end to it have failed.
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