Apparently Home Depot has been busted spamming Twitter users. In an article on Bloomberg, Home Depot is called on the carpet for soliciting "potential customers" via their Twitter account

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Campaign Against Illegal Immigrants Turns To Hacking And Spamming

I received the following text in the body of a forwarded spam e-mail today from someone named Gordon Pitner (gojopit@CHARTER.NET) whose e-mail address I am including because the author signed an entirely different person's name to it who had no clue who Gordon Pitner was and was  …

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John McCain Recruits Army of 'McSpammers'

'The content of these sites is not controlled by the McCain campaign and may contain offensive material.'

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Virginia's Supreme Court on Friday upheld the first US felony conviction for spamming.

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GROUPLY is one of the startups that is on its surface just another device for coordinating your Yahoo/Google groups communications, and adding a layer of Facebook-type social interface. BUT users report getting tons of spam after signing up and then difficulty in getting rid of  …

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Spamming StumbleUpon not Profitable

Being a StumbleUpon member for four years and three months as of this posting, I have certainly seen the evolution of spam proliferation on this ever-increasingly-popular social bookmarking/ reviewing/ networking site.Spam in our SU account inboxes. Spam in the SU forums.

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MyMail claims to eliminate all spam and insure emails stay private. Only time will tell if the service lives up to its promises.

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The spamming allegations are based on a slew of e-mails captured by contributors to the university's Spam Data Mining for Law Enforcement Applications project, a research venture that receives 2.5 million spam messages a day, and selects about 100,000 a week for analysis.

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For half a day, Wikipedia blocked the country of Qatar from making changes to the online encyclopedia.

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How online community admins can help turn a flood of forum spam into a trickle.

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Reflections from wired on America Online's plan to charge spammers, while still allowing them to spam you; not only will this not stop spam, it will stop emails you want to see go through, as well as giving network neutrality the biggest blow ever.

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