Spam A Lot
The Chicago Sun Times had an intereseting story about the “Spam King.” Since my wife is from Austin, Minnesota, home of the George A. Hormel Company, any headline that includes the word Spam always catches my attention.
Anyway, the Sun Time story notes that Sanford Wallace and his company, Smartbot.net, have been fined $4 million by the Federal Trade Commission for installing spyware, altering browser settings and inundating users with those nasty pop-up ads.
Talk about your poetic justice. The feds notified Wallace of the ruling by sending him a thousand emails with subject lines such as, “Are we still on for tonight?”, “Here’s that link I was telling you about,” and “News about a mutual friend of ours.”
Who says the government doesn’t have a sense of humor?
