Word: spam
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...Spitzer are still pending. "There are many more like Carmack," Spitzer warns. "This sends a message that we are pursuing them." Spitzer, a man who knows how to put himself in the spotlight, was the avenging angel of Wall Street last year. Now he is on a cybercrusade against spam...
...profit, spammers have gone from pests to an invasive species of parasite that threatens to clog the inner workings of the Internet. For the first time last month, according to MessageLabs, more than half the emails received by U.S. businesses were unsolicited. The time we spend deleting or defeating spam costs an estimated $8.9 billion a year in lost productivity. Sensing an enemy as unpopular as al-Qaeda, lawmakers are pondering a plethora of solutions--some of which, spam watchers say, could end up doing more harm than good...
Calling the e-mails “spam,” some students said the e-mails were a misuse of an open list meant as a forum for House issues...
...philosophical argument can be about as convincing as spam mail these days. With the breadth of philosophers, political scientists and sociologists many of us study here at Harvard—and with the ability to interpret their words in any of a million directions (thanks, Derrida)—it is no more a surprise that Pappin can offer a “philosophical” foundation for discrimination than that some religious leaders can offer a theological foundation, or that the Supreme Court can offer a legal foundation. If Pappin had failed to be inspired by the theory...
...Slut,” spam and an over-crowded dining hall have all prompted a flurry of activity over House e-mail lists in the last few weeks, and discussions have turned from the mundane to the controversial. The Eliot House Committee briefly shut down Eliot-list after objections—and the ensuing clamor—over the use of the word “slut.” On Lowell-Open, several students called daily Black History Month messages “spam,” sparking heated responses from other students, the House master and the senior...