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Re: IBM to offer service to bounce unwanted e-mail back to the computers that sent them

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Tue Mar 22 17:41:04 2005

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:06:42 -0500
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050322102437.G1033@naund.org>
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:24:37AM -0800, Andreas Ott wrote:
> http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/22/technology/ibm_spam/

If this write-up is accurate, then this is incredibly stupid
in multiple ways and on multiple levels.  I *hope* that this
is just a misperception based on poor writing and that nobody
at IBM is actually seriously contemplating something that's
simultaneously useless and abusive.

---Rsk

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