Spam Separatists (11/28/97)
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Thanksgiving has come and gone, but one thing we're not thankful for is the tenacity of spammers. According to Inter@ctive Week, two of the 'net's biggest spammers are tired of being booted off of service provider after service provider, and have decided to--get this--build their own internet backbone.

Wow. Apparently, getting "kicked off of five networks in the past three years" wasn't enough of a hint to Cyber Promotions Inc. that perhaps their methods, well, really tick people off. Instead, they're plowing ahead with Quantum Communications Inc. to create a new network company named "Global Technology Marketing Inc." whose slogan, we can only assume, will be "All Spam, All the Time." Oh, but don't worry-- they intend to enforce a (giggle) "strict code of ethics" among the spammers they host. They claim that their spam will be eminently filterable, but we'll believe that when it happens.

The thing that puzzles us is this: Given the fact that everyone hates spam, why do the spammers go to such lengths to continue? You'd think that such a universally reviled marketing method would repel, instead of attract, customers for a company's goods and services. But since they show no signs of relenting, we can only assume that's not the case. Somebody must be responding to spam with $$$, because otherwise it wouldn't be cost-effective and they'd stop sending it. So who, then, is participating in those get-rich-quick pyramid schemes and ordering those guides on how to investigate your spouse? C'mon, fess up and take your medicine...

 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/28/97 episode:

November 28, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

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  • 222: Clone Wars Revisited (11/28/97)   It's been a few months since Apple killed Mac OS licensing as we knew it, which, in computer techonology time, squarely plants the whole struggle in the realm of history instead of that of current events...

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