O’Reilly has released a new book entitled Spam Kings. Yep, about same. Billed as ‘The Real Story Behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills, and %*@)# Enlargements’. Do please forward this post to everyone you know. Twice

‘Unlike most spammers who chose to remain in the shadows,
Wallace, a large man in his early twenties, regularly tangled with
junk email opponents in Nanae discussions. Wallace argued that he
was an entrepreneur and that spamming was his First Amendment
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right. Although he disliked being called a spammer�he preferred to
say that he was in the bulk email business�Wallace eventually
embraced the nickname given him by anti-spammers: Spamford. But
while they may have admired his chutzpah, Nanae regulars abhorred
Wallace�s business practices, which included falsifying the return
address on his spam messages, so that he wouldn�t have to deal with
complaints or bounces�the error messages returned by mail systems
when they received an undeliverable message.’