[Gllug] EU Data privacy questionnaire

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 03:30:22PM +0100, John Southern wrote:
> Could we not all spend some time spamming the MEP's with junk offers until 
> they realise how horrid this is.
> The company a few desks down from me is a spamming company. They buy in email 
> addresses. These start at about £5K for 500K localised users. For a small 
> increase £500 they get an extra 1M users and so on. The collection services 
> are very agressive and lots of guarantees of emails being used this week 
> rather than old data. Couple of months back most of the harvesters were from 
> China. This month they appear to be Polish. It seems to move around countries 
> as an industry rather than just new ones appearing.

Ha ! Guaranteed up do date.
I still get email (spam) for someone that left my employment 8 years ago.
Everyone in the spam industry is a crook.

-- 
Alain Williams

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