Fears that
the next U.S. presidential election is going to be a spamfest has helped launch a Political Spam
Hall of Shame. If you receive a political spam, particularly for a national campaign where the winner gets to go live in Washington DC, (and particularly if you don’t actually live in the U.S. or are a U.S. citizen)
send it along.
Here’s the blurb: “The gist of my concern is that political spam should be no more acceptable than any other kind of spam, and it looks like 2004 is an election where political spam may, unfortunately, realize its full potential to annoy and aggravate, no different than V1AGARA spam or spam promoting products alleged to enlarge certain body parts.
“At first, we’re just going to collect political spam as it happens, post it here, and document responses or non-responses of various and sundry campaigns to being labeled spammers.”
Sobig wasn’t quite as big as they feared: The second stage of the virus fizzled when folk disconnected the servers the virus had instructed infected PCs to download new instructions from, CNET reports. The experts feared that the software could be used to spy on the computers’ owners or launch another wave of spam. The Sobig series of mass-mailing computer viruses is believed to have been created by spammers or a group of online vandals that sell their services to spammers. Phew. For now.
From the This Sounds Like A Good Thing, Or Are We Being Luddites? Dept comes 
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