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July 02, 2008
Why delete the spam mails? Here is why.
Ever wonder what would happen if you answer spam, Network World has the answer:
What would be the experience in 10 countries when everyday people, armed with a PC and e-mail account McAfee provided for the Global S.P.A.M. Diaries project, clicked through the spam and chronicled the results?
Remember this when you get that e-mail that is too good to be true.
My guess is they would become very popular very fast
Overall, the most obvious result of the S.P.A.M. experiment was that the PC that McAfee had provided for the project noticeably slowed down, clogged up with spyware, Mooney says.
That was to be expected, another result might not have expected is this:
the effect of entering a home address was extreme. Immediately, a deluge of mail landed at her doorstep, directed to the attention of Penelope Retch.
Posted by Peter at July 2, 2008 12:58 PM