Why Am I Getting All This Spam?

[Henk Elegeert]

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Why Am I Getting All This Spam?

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Why Am I Getting All This Spam?
Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
Research Six Month Report

Center for Democracy & Technology
March 2003

Summary

Every day, millions of people receive dozens of unsolicited commercial
e-mails
(UCE), known popularly as "spam." Some users see spam as a minor
annoyance,
while others are so overwhelmed with spam that they are forced to switch
e-mail
addresses. This has led many Internet users to wonder: How did these
people
get my e-mail address?
    In the summer of 2002, CDT embarked on a project to attempt to
determine
the source of spam. To do so, we set up hundreds of different e-mail
addresses,
used them for a single purpose, and then waited six months to see what
kind of
mail those addresses were receiving. It should come as no surprise to
most
e-mail users that many of the addresses CDT created for this study
attracted
spam, but it is very interesting to see the different ways that e-mail
addresses
attracted spam -- and the different volumes -- depending on where the
e-mail
addresses were used.
    The results offer Internet users insights about what online behavior
results
in the most spam. The results also debunk some of the myths about spam.
.....
"

Zie link voor vervolg

http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml

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