http://www.nwanews.com/adg/story_Business.php?storyid=28567
---SNIP--- Spam marketers stay step ahead of Net cops BY SAUL HANSELL THE NEW YORK TIMES Monday, April 28, 2003 Alyx Sachs is no longer sending people e-mail offering to "fix your credit risk free." Confronted by an increasing number of individuals, businesses and Internet service providers using software meant to identify and discard unwanted junk e-mail . commonly know as spam . Sachs has been forced to become more creative in her marketing pitches. The subject line on her credit e-mail, for example, now reads "get a fresh start." >From a small office on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, millions of messages prepared on behalf of others by Sachs and her partner are still going out to e-mail inboxes every day, promising not just to restore a poor credit rating but also to sell printer ink, 3-D glasses and, lately, even playing cards with pictures of wanted Iraqi leaders. In the cat-and-mouse game of e-mail marketers and those trying to stop them, the spammers are still winning. [...] ---SNAP--- Auch nicht schlecht: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/06/1554227.shtml?tid=133 -- np: n/a
