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...heart of Citizen Soldier is with Willie and Joe, Bill Mauldin's famous editorial-cartoon dogfaces. Today they would be well into their 70s, if the Lucky Strikes and Spam didn't do them in. They would probably be bypassed in more ways than one. But they won't be forgotten as long as citizen-scholar Ambrose keeps his desk...
Nothing like a few lawsuits to help drum up business. As Internet service providers mobilize to keep bulk E-mailers at bay, the junk E-mail (called spam) has only become more pervasive. It represents, for instance, up to 20% of the 9 million E-mail messages processed by America Online each...
...filed two lawsuits, most recently against Prime Data in Kentucky, for deluging AOL members with ads for online entrepreneurs. But techies are starting to accept that junk E-mail may be here to stay. The problem: new technology makes it impossible to distinguish between mail you want and spam you don't. Courts may offer temporary relief, but serious spammers say the new suits don't have them worried. "We've been through 12 lawsuits since last year," says CyberPromotions' Sanford Wallace, "and have still shown a profit every quarter...
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Vulgar and spam-brained as they may be, Beavis and Butt-head need no spin doctors--they were born to win the world over all on their own. The crudely drawn pubescents were first unleashed on the public in a 1992 focus group session MTV held in Teaneck, New Jersey, during which the audience was given a peek at Frog Baseball, a short film by a then 30-year-old novice animator named Mike Judge. The group's response to the film, in which the boys take turns whacking a bat at a harmless amphibian, went way beyond...