The U.S. Postal Service is promoting its online Click-N-Ship product by sending spam to customers - in apparent violation of its loophole-ridden privacy policy and certainly the spirit of federal law - according to a pair of antispam activists who say they have received the unsolicited e-mail.
* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass offers advice on getting Sendmail to listen to local requests
* Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter says Barracuda is a good antispam option
Here in the IT world, we have spam technologies and we have their opposite: antispam technologies. Then we have what Verizon is apparently doing, using mirror antispam technology -- what I shall henceforth call Alice-spam technology.