Instant Spamming

from the just-add-water dept

For all of you IM addicts, there will probably be some really annoying IM spam coming your way. Combine your IM habits with your P2P habits, and you get some fairly-good (or fairly-bad, depending on your perspective) targeted marketing according to this article. Ugh. Stop the world, I wanna get off...
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    alternatives, 19 Feb 2001 @ 11:35am

    Nothing new here.

    If you have ICQ, every 2-3 days you get IMed about a porn site.

    One, I forwarded to the local FBI office was advertising a site that was supposed to have child porn.

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