Many people on the abuse newsgroups consider them spam, and none of them
consider them to be legitimate.
See:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/wordofmouth.asp
and this link (if it survives the email):
http://groups.google.ca/groups?q=group:news.admin.net-abuse.*+%22WordofMouth
: [Declude.JunkMail] Word of Mouth connetion?
Many people on the abuse newsgroups consider them spam, and none of them
consider them to be legitimate.
See:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/wordofmouth.asp
and this link (if it survives the email):
http://groups.google.ca/groups?q