more on MICROSOFT Planning to Purchase World's Largest Spyware Company to Spam 40,000,000+

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Brian McWilliams <brian () pc-radio com>
Date: July 20, 2005 9:41:30 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] MICROSOFT Planning to Purchase World's Largest  
Spyware Company to Spam 40,000,000+


Dave,

That email you forwarded (from Spamis.org) was sent by Robert  
Soloway, a bulk emailer who was recently defeated in court by  
Microsoft.  There's some background here:

http://antivirus.about.com/b/a/2005_07_19.htm

Fwiw, the Microsoft/Claria deal appears to have fallen through

http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3519521

Brian



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