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That Spam is Talking to Me

(Mis)Uses of Technology

from the oh-please,-no dept

Wed, Aug 9th 2000 2:09am — Mike Masnick
I read the following article talking about a new service from a company called iHello which will allow direct marketers to add voice to their marketing campaigns. Yes, that's right, your spam will now talk to you. The article makes it sound like people have responded positively to it, but it sounds really annoying to me.
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    Ryan, 9 Aug 2000 @ 2:34pm

    What's that noise?

    Ha! Great it now seems that not only do I get spammed but I'll get embarassed at work when all of a sudden one of my spam mails starts talking dirty to me!

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