Tangled Up in Spam. Those unwanted messages have become the bane of the Internet. Why we can't just say no. By James Gleick. [New York Times: Technology]

Just the other day I was saying "Bah, Spam". So, I was most interesting in hearing what James Glieak had to say about it in the NY Times today. I just didn't realize some of it was this bad:

The harvesting of e-mail addresses by spammers is relentless and swift. Investigators for the Federal Trade Commission recently posted some freshly minted e-mail addresses in chat rooms and news groups to see what would happen; in one case, the first spam came in nine minutes.

I guess I should be happy that I lasted a year without getting any spam at my primary email address.