But these are early days and the medium is
dynamic. Ad-driven content was a failure. The next model may
be a roaring success - or yet another dismal defeat.
The Economics of Spam
By: Sam Vaknin
Also published by United Press International (UPI)
Tennessee resident K. C. "Khan" Smith owes the internet
service provider EarthLink $24 million. According to the CNN,
last August he was slapped with a lawsuit accusing him of
violating federal and state Racketeering Influenced and
Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statutes, the federal Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984, the federal Electronic
Communications Privacy Act of 1986 and numerous other state
laws. On July 19 - having failed to appear in court - the
judge ruled against him. Mr. Smith is a spammer.
Brightmail, a vendor of e-mail filters and anti-spam
applications warned that close to 5 million spam "attacks" or
"bursts" occurred last month and that spam has mushroomed 450
percent since June last year. PC World concurs. Between one
seventh and one half of all e-mail messages are spam -
unsolicited and intrusive commercial ads, mostly concerned
with sex, scams, get rich quick schemes, financial services
and products, and health articles of dubious provenance.
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