1USA News June 6, 2001

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1USA Customer Newsletter
Wednesday June 6, 2001

The big news this week was Hormel's announcement that they no longer object to people calling unsolicited commercial e-mail "spam."
However, if the term is to be used, it should be used in all lower-case letters to distinguish it from our trademark SPAM, which should be used with all uppercase letters.

Remember, "spam" (all lower-case) is any unsolicited commercial e-mail message and "SPAM" (all upper-cased) is a canned luncheon meat with the shelf life of gravel. :)

To read Hormel's statement, check out
http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm

In a related story, David Colker at the Los Angeles Times recently spent the week responding to many of the spams that he received. The results of his investigation are eye opening, especially if you've ever considered responding to those spams that offer to give you a college degree for your life experience or to erase a bad credit history. You can find Colker's "Seven Days of Spam" article at
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/features/lat_junk010503.htm

If I owned the Internet, I would require *EVERYONE* to read Colker's "Seven Days of Spam" article along with Bob Sullivan's "Watch a hacker work the system" article at
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/550567.asp

If these two articles don't scare you away from ever even THINKING about responding to a spam, nothing will.

Because of stupid judges like this too, 1USA maintains a No Spam policy.

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	1USA Customer Newsletter Wednesday June 6, 2001

	The big news this week was Hormel's announcement that they no longer object to people calling unsolicited commercial e-mail "spam." However, if the term is to be used, it should be used in all lower-case letters to distinguish it from our trademark SPAM, which should be used with all uppercase letters. Remember, "spam" (all lower-case) is any unsolicited commercial e-mail message and "SPAM" (all upper-cased) is a canned luncheon meat with the shelf life of gravel. :) To read Hormel's statement, check out http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm In a related story, David Colker at the Los Angeles Times recently spent the week responding to many of the spams that he received. The results of his investigation are eye opening, especially if you've ever considered responding to those spams that offer to give you a college degree for your life experience or to erase a bad credit history. You can find Colker's "Seven Days of Spam" article at http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/features/lat_junk010503.htm If I owned the Internet, I would require EVERYONE to read Colker's "Seven Days of Spam" article along with Bob Sullivan's "Watch a hacker work the system" article at http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/550567.asp If these two articles don't scare you away from ever even THINKING about responding to a spam, nothing will.

	Because of stupid judges like this too, 1USA maintains a No Spam policy.