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December 29, 2004 12:26 PM PST

Porn loses its savor in spam

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Ads for online meds ousted porn come-ons as the top topic in junk e-mails last year, according to AOL.

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AOLs Numbers have always been suspect
by December 29, 2004 3:13 PM PST: I wonder if they have taken into account the drastic drop in membership over the last year? And considered the fact that each of these represents multiple screen names and email addresses.

AOL provides a useful service for the technonovice, I am sure, but it also has a habit of trying to snow the rest of us with numbers that are, shall we say, self-serving?; Reply to this comment

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