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daily link  Monday, February 18, 2002

Wish You Hadn't Sent That Last E-Mail?

Virtual E-Mail Shredders Give Control. SiliconValley.com Feb 18 2002 8:04AM ET [Moreover - moreover...

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Why Spam Won't Get Better

Bottom line, for all the complaints about spam, don't expect any improvement in the situation until ISP's get serious about stopping it.

dslreports.com - news article 15234: "A while ago, as an experiment, we buried a link in these web pages that would generate a unique email address on a blank page when visited. The reason the link was hidden was to reduce the hit count of the page to manageable proportions, so we could be sure that future email to this unique address could be uniquely matched to the IP address doing the scooping.

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