Another newsletter, another doozy from my favorite spam apologist, in today’s column, “Stupid Media Watch: A Canadian Logic 101 Failure,” we learn that because spam doesn’t reach a user’s inbox, there’s obviously no cost to anyone, anywhere because of spam:
In its argument for a new Canadian anti-spam law, the article trotted out the usual spam-is-threatening-our-very-existence [...]

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I find reading Ken Magill is like listening to Rush Limbaugh for me, it gets my heart going and I get a good cardio session in while yelling at them.
Magill’s latest doozy is in a column where he, shockingly, quite reasonably debunks the bogus numbers that some anti-spam companies are using to show ROI for [...]

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5/5/08 update: So, apparently what happened to me has a name now, it’s called “backscattering.” Still pisses me off though!
Ugh, someone used my tarpify email as the spam return-to address, and I am getting tens of thousands of bounces back to me…my poor blackberry had to be turned off because it was vibrating itself to [...]

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Honestly, I can’t compete with this, so here it is, the honest-to-goodness, funniest spam I’ve ever read:

—–Original Message—–
From: Wat
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 2:58 PM
To: allyn
Subject: Prepare your left hand.
Provide your left hand and a tissue.
Send your wife away.
Go forth to [SPAM SITE]

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