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2008-01-19: Oh, sure, large companies have benefitted from affiliate spamming for years. Some have enforced no-spam policies, and some have not. Now, though, many big-name companies with warm and fuzzy marketing faces have started using email to reach their customers. The problem is that Corporate America is getting it wrong. They're using what's called "email append", and ancient consumer data. The result? Spam. 2003-02-09: 2003-01-08: The Smell of Profit... Here's a fun tidbit I dug up... I've recently gotten several pieces of UCE from a new "offers" marketer, so I decided to pay their website a visit. All in all, it's the typical minimal site using what appear to be generic stock images, with the usual sales pitch about email marketing, and pages for subscribing and unsubscribing. On the unsub page, though, the stock image is that of an ancient Roman coin. This started me thinking, so I Gargled for info. This particular coin turns out to be a silver denarius struck in 75 A.D., during the reign of Emperor Vespasian. Coincidentally, I'd recently seen a TV documentary that talked about Vespasian. Interesting guy. I Gargled for a little more info on this particular Caesar, found some pages, and read this text... Read the full article... 2002-01-19: Get ready. The spam floodgates are about to open. Wide. The research that went into building this site has uncovered some very nasty information. The number of Clueless Mailers is increasing rapidly... and more seriously, the sharing of unethically-acquired email addresses among Clueless Mailers and their customers is rising fast. In addition, more and more large "legitimate" businesses are being snowed into believing that "single opt-in" is a legitimate way to acquire addresses... and "opt-out spam" is becoming an everyday nuisance. The most dangerous trend is the
sudden popularity of bounties paid for unconfirmed "co-registrations".
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