The Oregonian: CONFESSIONS OF A FORMER SPAMMER
Fascinating insight from the Spam Front.
"You can talk about these people that come out with spam filters," Shiels said. "They're going to come out with something that will limit it to a degree, but then the bulk e-mailers are just going to counteract. It's a war is what it is. That's why the software is so expensive."
Playing by the law Even amid the spam war, Shiels said, he went out of his way to comply with the various antispam laws.
"Legal" spamming was more time consuming, he said, because it required him to obey all requests to stop sending spam. But it didn't reduce the amount of money he received.
