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December 18, 2003 Spam: Behind the scenes Ever wonder about the mindset of the people who clog your inbox with unsolicited e-mail? The lawsuits filed today by Microsoft and the New York Attorney General against an alleged spam ring were based in part on e-mail exchanges among employees and principals of the companies the suits target <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/152964_msftspam18.html>. Those e-mails, subpoenaed by the Attorney General's office, were included as exhibits in the New York case -- providing a rare glimpse of a bulk e-mailing operation at work. Here's an example: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 12:34 p.m. To: Robert J. Aitken Cc: Justin Champion Subject: Re: More complaints from false headings We send out 10 million plus emails a day and you on average send me 2 complaints or less in a day. Today 3 complaints. I think 1 complaint per 3 million is real good. We average about 1 in 5 million but still we have generated over 19,984 leads for items in offerstream this month and I have logged from you guys less then [sic] 20 complaints this month being sent to us. If your [sic] having issues with your ISP maybe something else is the reason. That's just one message, but you can see all the e-mails for yourself. The New York Attorney General's office has posted online the full text of its filings, including its lawsuit and exhibits <http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2003/dec/dec18b_03.html>. The e-mails start on page 45 of this .pdf document <http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2003/dec/syn2.pdf>. Posted by Todd Bishop at December 18, 2003 12:24 PM ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
