Thursday, May 01, 2003

Hmm, how much did this cost?
Amazing gov't discovery: Junk e-mail is usually junk:
The FTC studied a random sample of 1,000 unsolicited e-mails taken from a pool of more than 11 million pieces of spam it has collected. The agency looked for deceptive claims in a message’s text or the "from" or "subject" lines.

"In one way or another, a great deal of it appears to contain important information that is false or deceptive," said Eileen Harrington, the FTC’s director of marketing practices.
Forward mine to Jay Bookman (post immediately below), thanks. He's worried about the goverment not having enough money to provide "services" and needs something to take his mind off it. Some mail offering "hot singles" and "penis enlargers" might do the trick.