Word: spam
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...charged twice, typically at a rate of 10 cents for the sender and five for the receiver, though receivers can pay as high as 25 cents. Worse, since the recipient has no choice to accept or reject an incoming message, cell phone users can be billed for receiving spam...
...people spam their friends even though most people hate it? I could claim I was motivated by altruism - proceeds from the ad revenue generated by the (Lil) Green Patch go toward saving the rainforest - but the truth is that I just wanted to grow my garden and see how many different kinds of plants I could send and receive. If I send 1,000 plants I earn a garden gnome. Cool! (By Green Patch's own statistics, the application has contributed a mere $15,650 toward its stated cause since launching in December...
...have noticed: There are some people on this campus who like to complain. They whine, they cry, they spam the open lists; in every discussion, Lacoste-sporting Harvard undergraduates form up into a bourgeois proletariat, for whom angry emails have replaced manifestos. They are defiantly, eternally dissatisfied—it doesn’t matter why—and many spend their hours insisting upon an urgent need for some type of “change”; though, again, they never take the unattractive step of defining what that change means. It’s like a Barack Obama...
...taken aback, when they received an e-mail over the house list last weekend soliciting nude photographs of “all hot Harvard girls.” If the e-mail had not come from a FAS student account, it probably would have been filtered into e-mail spam folders with the likes of Viagra advertisements and congratulatory e-mails from fake lottery organizations...
...Groton hoax and confronted Nava, who admitted to faking the incident in high school but insisted that this time "was different." Still, the others were stuck on the fact that there were actually two sets of death threats sent on Dec. 12: one caught by the University's spam filter and another, sent successfully, thirty minutes later. "I wondered how the sender would have known that the first message was caught by the filter," Gergis says, "unless he was one of the recipients." On Dec. 17, Detectives Silagyi and Flanders sat Nava down for a second interview to review "inconsistencies...