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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2002
By Jeff Gelles, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 7--Is the wall near my computer screen papered with canaries from the Internet mine shaft?
I ask that question because it's covered with printouts of spam -- unsolicited commercial e-mails. Or at least I think it's spam. I can't actually read most of it, because the e-mails I've pinned to the wall are entirely in Chinese and Korean.
I get plenty of spam in English, too, just like virtually anyone with an e-mail address. But the foreign-language spam raises an especially troubling question:
If there are automated processors out there -- "bots," in geek-speak, short for "robots" -- that are harvesting e-mail addresses and generating spam without...
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