A blank check for Microsoft. Tom Zeller's A1 piece on email spam this morning looks like an innocent enough rehash of a topic we all feel pretty much the same about, pegged to the first anniversary of a federal law meant to rein in at least some of the spammers. Zeller's contention that the law may have had the paradoxical effect of increasing spam is meant to up the volume of controversy a bit, but still, this one seems basically ho-hum, right?

Until you dig under the hood, and start to see something that looks for all the world like product straight out of Microsoft PR. Is Zeller just playing the Redmond stenographer here? It's a bit long, from all the quotes, so the full post is continued below the fold ...

posted by michael  4:49:13 PM  
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