Lycos Create Sceensaver to Help Kill Spammers

Download a Sceensaver to Help Kill Spammers
In one of the best thought moves to help eliminate Spam, Lycos, the european search engine has released a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.

The net firm estimates that if enough people sign up and download the tool, spammers could end up paying to send out terabytes of data.

How was the term spam invented?

Father of Spam Speaks Out on His Legacy Back in 1978, when the thing we now all think of as annoying, unsolicited, inbox-clogging email was just the canned, spongy sandwich meat, one man sent an email to 400 people, marketing his company's new product.

With that one fateful move, email spam was born.

Gary Thuerk, now in sales at computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co., sent out that original spam back when the Internet was called Arpanet, and researchers and the military were the only ones using it. As a marketing manager at the East Coast-based Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), Thuerk sent out the bulk email inviting West Coast techies to a demonstration of Dec's new Decsystem-20.

Ad Serving Firm Delivers Virus

Ad How to Piss readers off!Ad management firm Falk AG briefly became an agent of the Bofra virus on Saturday, delivering the Internet Explorer exploit to users whose browsers requested ads from its customers' sites. The incident occurred between 12:10 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

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Morgan, Baumann and Brown Promoted Within Penton's Electronics Group

Morgan, Baumann and Brown Promoted Within Penton's Electronics GroupPenton Media, Inc., (OTCBB:PTON), a diversified business-to-business media company, has announced the promotions of Tom Morgan, Bill Baumann and Jason Brown.


Morgan was named Group Director, with senior operating responsibility for the Company's Electronics OEM Group. He was formerly Group Publisher of Electronic Design and EE Product News magazines.

Penton's Electronics OEM Group includes Electronic Design, EE Product News, Microwaves & RF and Wireless Systems Design magazines and their related online and in-person media products and services.

Morgan joined Penton in May 1999. He came to the Company from Advanstar Communications where his positions included General Manager of the International Beauty Group and Publisher of the Automatic ID News Group. Prior to that, Morgan was VP/GM of the Sports & Music Division of Cardinal Business Media. He is based in Penton's Paramus, N.J., office and reports to Penton CEO David Nussbaum.

Baumann was named Publisher of Electronic Design magazine. He was formerly Associate Publisher, and before that Global Sales Director of Electronic Design magazine.

Baumann joined Penton in March 1988. He previously worked for Schnell Publishing and Ziff Davis in regional sales manager positions. He also is based in Penton's Paramus, N.J., office.

Brown was named eMedia Product Manager for the Penton Electronics Group. He was formerly Publisher of Penton's Connected Home Web site.

Brown joined Penton Media Europe in February 1993, where he served as Publisher of NT Explorer magazine in Manchester, U.K. He joined Penton's U.S.-based operations in January 2001. He is based in Penton's Loveland, CO, office.

How to get big - spend billions!

Cendant to snap up Orbitz for $1.25 billion : "update Cendant, a travel and real estate company, announced Wednesday it will acquire online travel site Orbitz in a $1.25 billion deal.
Cendant plans to pay $27.50 a share in cash to acquire Orbitz, which is a formidable competitor among the online travel sites. Under the agreement, Cendant will continue to offer both Orbitz and its CheapTickets brands in the consumer travel market. "

Questions for Gawker Media Publisher Nick Denton

Getting rich with Blogs
Nick Denton applies the same formula to every blog he launches: find a niche topic with broad appeal to young men, recruit a talented and crass young writer who's in it as much for the exposure as the paycheck, come up with an irresistible title, promote (and cross-promote) like hell, and wait for advertisers to call.

That's how he's rolled out each of Gawker Media's five properties -- Gawker, Gizmodo, Fleshbot, Wonkette and Defamer. So it's surely how he'll approach his rumored in-the-works sites on travel and gaming.

The formula appears to be paying off. Last month, Denton launched a sophisticated and high profile custom Web site for Nike under the Gawker brand. Called Art of Speed, the Nike blog was a genuine coup for a publisher in the still lowbrow blog arena. While Denton hasn't shared results on the site's performance, he said it exceeded targets.

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