Repeat After Me
Posted by: JackP on May 9th, 2008
Last week, to mark the 30th anniversary of the very first spam message (sent over ARPANET, the precursor to today’s internet), Sophos have put forward a spam pledge. If everyone followed this pledge, there would be no financial benefit to anyone sending spam and so we’d get an awful lot less.
And just as importantly, buying anything from any of the spammers continues to fund their spamming activities. So repeat after me…
I, [NAME], do solemnly promise to you, my fellow internet users, that I will do my bit to fight the problem of spam, resist the temptation of weight loss adverts, fake Rolex watches, pump-and-dump stock market scams, and ways to increase the size of my body parts. And so henceforth, I make this pledge. To not click on links in unsolicited mail and never buy goods advertised via spam.Sophos Blog: Sophos Spam Pledge
[Image used with permission: thanks to Sophos]
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