FC: Is anti-spam service MailWiper.com resorting to... spamming?

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 22:19:56 PST

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    Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:54:46 -0600
    To: tipsat_private, declanat_private, danaat_private,
        spamresourcesat_private
    From: Stephen Whitis <abuseat_private>
    Subject: Re: Tired of Deleting eMail
    
    This message is being sent to a couple of folks who discuss spam issues
    in their newsletters/blogs, and to a couple of folks who have previously
    written articles about mailwiper.com, and to a couple of friends.
    
    I received spam today advertising an anti-spam tool, called mailwiper.com.
    
    Mailwiper.com
    8725 Roswell Rd, #104
    Atlanta, Georgia 30350
    
    The spamhouse sending the spam and running the spamvertised website is
    values-your-way.com.
    
    Their "privacy policy" is quite interesting.  They admit that they run an 
    opt out
    system, and that if any of the customers that ask them to send spam give them
    an address, that they will then spam it until you opt out.  They admit that 
    they
    will sell your information to other companies.  They claim that laws regarding
    unsolicited email do not apply to them.
    
    Copies of the spam, and a few personal comments, are available at
    http://www.whitis.com/mailwiper.htm
    
    
    
    
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