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Thursday, September 12, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/12/technology/12MAIL.html Spam Hits Some Anti-Spammers, Who Think They Have a Culprit MATT RICHTEL Tens of thousands of readers of e-mail newsletters have recently been inundated with unsolicited overtures from pornography Web sites and get-rich-quick schemes, the newsletter publishers say, and they are blaming the company that manages and distributes the newsletters for them. Particularly galling to some of the publishers is that the newsletters they send out are about ways to use e-mail to market responsibly and about the dangers of sending unsolicited e-mail, known as spam. The publishers are blaming a company called SparkLIST.com, which offers services they use to distribute their e-mail newsletters. The reason for the accusation is that the spam has been sent to private, otherwise undisclosed e-mail addresses that are used only to receive the publishers' newsletters....
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