A Day in the Life of a Spammer | Digital Deliverance

What if the crime of Breaking & Entering into your home were illegal only if the perpetrator wore a mask?

Imagine if Breaking & Entering into your home were legal if the perpetrator didn’t wear a mask. Now imagine that we’re not talking about breaking & entering into your home but into your e-mail queue. In the U.S., it’s now legal to spam you if the spammer doesn’t disguise his identity.

That’s the situation which the ironically named CAN SPAM Act of 2003 has created. Provided that the spammer doesn’t disguise his identity or subsequently agrees to not break into your e-mail again if you complain, he can spam you all he wants.

Jim Wagner of Internet.com published a fascinating story last week about A Day in the Life of a Spammer.

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Since 1996, the media business consulting firm of Digital Deliverance has provided publishers and broadcasters on four continents with strategic reviews and advice about how to profitably adapt to the epochal changes that computer-mediated technologies have wrought on the media environment and their industries.

Over the years, the firm’s clients have include The New York Times, News Corporation, The Irish Times of Dublin, Dagbladet of Oslo, The Mail & Guardian of Johannesburg, Advance Publications, Critical Mention, MediaNews Group, New Century Network, the Media Development Investment Fund, the National Cancer Institutes, and scores of other media firms that need to adapt to computer-mediated technologies and the rise of Individuated Media.

The managing partner of Digital Deliverance is Vin Crosbie, Adjunct Professor of postgraduate New Media Management at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication, in upstate New York. From 2007 through 2020, he wrote and was the sole instructor of the school’s New Media Business course, a course required for students in the New Media Management master’s degree curriculuum, an elective course for Ph.D. students, and a permission-only course for selected undergraduates and graduate students.

Digital Deliverance is incorporated as a limited liability company in the U.S. state of Connecticut, where it is based in the city of Norwich, Connecticut.