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Diary of a Spammed Housewife
Wed, 02 Jul 08

For Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., the decision to abandon cyber-sense and invite e-mail spam into her life for a month by participating in a McAfee experiment was a bit of a lark.

The idea of the Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment -- which fittingly started on April Fool's Day -- was to have 50 volunteers from around the world answer every spam message and pop-up ad on their PC.

What would be the experience in 10 countries when everyday people, armed with a PC and e-mail account McAfee provided for the Global S.P.A.M. Diaries project, clicked through the spam and chronicled the results?

(Note: If you weren't already aware, this project definitely highlighted the connection between spam and criminal activity. Those who think spam is "just a nuisance" are wrong. It's more than a nuisance. It's dangerous.)

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	"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr Seuss « Things are not looking happy in eBayLand Main Blog Starbucks to Shut 500 More Stores, Cut Jobs » Diary of a Spammed Housewife Wed, 02 Jul 08 For Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., the decision to abandon cyber-sense and invite e-mail spam into her life for a month by participating in a McAfee experiment was a bit of a lark. The idea of the Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment -- which fittingly started on April Fool's Day -- was to have 50 volunteers from around the world answer every spam message and pop-up ad on their PC. What would be the experience in 10 countries when everyday people, armed with a PC and e-mail account McAfee provided for the Global S.P.A.M. Diaries project, clicked through the spam and chronicled the results? (Note: If you weren't already aware, this project definitely highlighted the connection between spam and criminal activity. Those who think spam is "just a nuisance" are wrong. It's more than a nuisance. It's dangerous.) Committed to bandwidth on Wed, 02 Jul 08 in Links and Commentary Thereon « Things are not looking happy in eBayLand Main Blog Starbucks to Shut 500 More Stores, Cut Jobs » About … Archives … Contact … BonniNet	Significant Cast Members Bonni … Andrew Miranda … Zoë … Missycat BonniCam Webcam portrait of a pale, unphotogenic, middle-aged geek at her desk (or not) Other Blogs by Me … Zoë Notes … (all about Zoë) … Miranda Notes … (all about Miranda) … Trinity weblog … (trauma and recovery related) … Alicorna News & Notes … (professional/web design stuff) … elizabyte news & notes … (updates and art related stuff) … The Perfume Blog … (perfume, of course!) … Uncommon Touch … (my online retail sales site) … Stuff I'm Reading … (Shared items from feeds I follow via Google Reader) … Bonni's Offsite Blog … (just a little blog I use to post when I can't or don't want to post here) Content and design copyright © Bonni Hall, 2000-2006. All rights reserved. No unauthorized use or reproduction is permitted. It's not that I don't love you. It's just that I don't want you to plagiarize my original writings or take my graphics or layout, which I worked very hard to produce. Thanks for understanding. Web design by Alicorna.