I don’t know about you, but I conservatively estimate that probably 60-70% of my e-mail is now spam. If you’re working in PR and you post press releases with your e-mail address on a website, you are probably facing a similar toll.
While products such as Cloudmark are helping remove some of the clutter the weight of spam continues to grow and it impacts everyone’s ability to effectively communicate over e-mail.
With that in mind it’s always pleasing to hear that some spammers are getting a little of their own medicine.
Alan Ralsky is acknowledged as one of the world’s most prolific spammers and recently anti-spam advocates have been signing him up to every direct mail service they can. The result? His new plush house is besieged with paper spam. He’s so annoyed he’s threatening legal action against the anti-spammers. Mike Wendland of the Detroit Free Press reports.
(In Mike’s original story, he writes: “Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records” – hee hee hee nice way around the issue….)
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