News You Can Bruise for 2001 February 7

Wed Feb 07 2001 06:27: eToys is dead. Good thing I didn't go to work there.

Wed Feb 07 2001 07:47: From a spam mail:

20  MILLION
 E-MAIL ADDRESSES
  FOR ONLY $249
        **Over Night International Shipping Included**

So I shell out my $249 and I get a fifteen-foot stack of books full of email addresses in small type delivered to my door. I can then OCR the books into my spam automailer over the course of several years and then spam everyone on the list. And what better to sell them than my electronic version of the list their name is on, which I can sell multiple times for much less than $249?

Wed Feb 07 2001 07:52: Oh, I didn't read the spam closely enough. They send it on a CD. I guess I just assumed that if they were going to be stupid about it they would go all the way.