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Cruising a post-spam world
Tech: So the “King of Spam” was arrested in Seattle yesterday. Robert Alan Soloway was accused of using “zombie” computers around the world to jam our e-mail servers.
The purveyors of enlargements and exotic stock options know no shame, and their messages seem too outrageous to ever work, but a recent Harper’s Index records that tens of millions of dollars were drained from the UK in the famous Nigerian finance caper.
As for the couple hundred e-mails a day that make it past the spam guards, perhaps 80 percent are helpful editing a newspaper’s entertainment section. The remaining 20 percent is evenly divided between political messages and personal updates, along with a few newsletters that make it almost impossible to “unsubscribe” without filling out a long form.
I get most of my non-Austin news these days through RSS feeds, plus an occasional browse through something like 200 bookmarks. Bookmarking, by the way, has gone down as feeds and quick browser shortcuts rob them of time-saving value.
I still depend heavily on tips from readers, sources and subjects. It never ceases to amaze me how many Central Texans are sitting on news that they don’t think people care about. Don’t think that way! Pass along the latest. If it is at all significant, we’ll find a way to publish it.
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