Living Online
January, 2000
Cut Spam from Your DietIf you've been online for more than a few months, you've probably started getting spam--unsolicited business-opportunity come-ons, plugs for porn sites and ads for miracle diets--in your e-mail. The longer you have an account, the worse it gets. How did you get targeted for all this spam?Typically, a spammer goes into business by purchasing a CD-ROM containing hundreds of thousands of e-mail addresses. The evil creeps who make and sell these CDs obtain the addresses by usi...
