Gary Robinson's Spam Rants
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 Gary Robinson is CEO of Transpose, LLC, and a Research Director at ActiveState. Main blog here.

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  Monday, December 16, 2002

AOL wins nearly $7 million judgement against spam outfit. [News.com]
9:13:41 PM    comment

Scott E. Fahlman: href=http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/414/forum.pdf. Fahlman is an IBM researcher and this paper seems to be a key document in pay-to-spam thinking.
11:32:31 AM    comment

"Pay-To-Spam Inches Closer To Reality" [Extreme Tech] This is a project by the person who started tipjar.com. He claims that PayPal took the same idea as tipjar, but much later, and got venture capital for it -- a claim I think is fairly lame since the business idea of providing a tipjar vs. a payment-for-anything service is totally different, regardless of the fact that the technical infrastructure may be very similar.
11:11:12 AM    comment

Spam now 40% of email; 8% a year ago. [ZDNet]
10:51:27 AM    comment

Hypocritical, thieving anti-spammers. [DM News] Not a key read but reveals another perspective if you've been following the threads about unrepentant spammer Ralsky and his $740,000 house.
10:46:42 AM    comment

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