Word: spam
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...Dutch are using a more innovative technique for discouraging cell-phone thieves. In Amsterdam, police spam stolen cell phones with short message service (SMS) technology. When a victim reports a theft, police take the number and send an SMS message every three to five minutes to the stolen phone. It says: "You are in possession of a stolen cell phone. Did you know that stealing a cell phone is a crime punishable by imprisonment? Using a stolen cell phone is too, and you are risking a prison term of one year...
Therein lies the future of e-mail. Spam messages aimed at attracting customers are ineffective; people are even less likely to respond to e-mail from unfamiliar sources than they are to answer paper junk mail. Jupiter Media Metrix, based in New York City, estimates that marketers pay $125 to attract each new customer using e-mail and only $66 using direct mail. But customers are more receptive to firms they already do business with. Inducing an existing customer to make a new purchase costs $6 using e-mail, vs. $18 for direct mail. Says Jared Blank, a digital-commerce...
...spokesperson Nicholas J. Graham said the service did not reject any Harvard admissions decisions as “spam...
...cheating by using "piano" as a two-, then a three-syllable word in "I Love a Piano." A devilishly intricate rhyme a la Stephen Sondheim ("We'll have Leontyne Price to sing a/ Medley from 'Der Meistersinger'") was not Berlin's style - to Sondheim's caviar, his lyrics were Spam - but in "Annie Get Your Gun" he did a triple rhyme ("You can't shoot a male in the tail like a quail") whose comic force quickly escalates musically and in the singer's volume. And he could pay cheeky tribute to friend Kaufman's failed play "The Deep Tangled...
...mass e-mail sent by the Social Studies department to its concentrators on Tuesday had some students thinking about the line between academic announcements and spam...