Say yes to spam
By Davey Winder in Editorial
That, it would appear, is precisely what some fifty volunteers around the world will be doing from April 1st. They have not gone totally mad, but rather are taking part in an experiment to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the first spam e-mail. According to McAfee, the volunteers will live an online life totally unprotected from the scourge of spam, and will blog about the experience. Oh, apparently they have to respond to all the spam they receive as they use the Internet as part of the study. If I did that I would need some kind of time machine to be able to keep up with the volume, to be honest.
The S.P.A.M project, that’s Spammed Persistently All Month in case you cared, will run for 30 days and is designed to “show the devastating effects of spam” what with the proven link between spam and cybercrime, McAfee assures me.
“Cybercrime won’t go away without solving the problem of spam,” said Dave DeWalt, chief executive officer for McAfee. “McAfee is leading the fight against cybercrime and spam. This experiment will raise awareness of the problem by showing that a 30-day diet of spam is bad for your online health.”
To track the daily progress of the S.P.A.M. Experiment and read reports from the participants, you can visit the S.P.A.M blog, but I have to admit I have a sneaky suspicion it will just say something like APRIL FOOL.
Surely that is the only explanation for this totally bizarre stunt? McAfee, nor anyone else, needs to convince anyone of how annoying and how dangerous spam is, and it certainly does not need to send fifty innocent souls mad to prove the point.
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