Selling your Inbox Instead of Chocolates? 55
Qxz86 asks: "I, am an 8th grader at a Tennessee middle school, and on the 21st of February, I was asked to provide names and e-mails and/or street addresses to a company called Schoolmall. The company then distributes them among companies like AT&T and Toshiba. Needless to say, they then spam you legally on account of these solicitations. For every nine that I turn in my school gets $2.25. How do you feel about this?" SchoolMall, a virtual "shopping mall", allows students to purchase items from several large retail chains, and a portion of that purchase (depending on the vendor) goes back to the school. This sounds innocent enough, but I am definitely bothered by the insinuation that they are asking children for email addresses with which someone can Spam unsuspecting targets. Does anyone else have more information on this program?
I feel that it sucks (Score:3, Interesting)
What next? (Score:4, Interesting)
Seriously...what more can we do to pollute young minds? Don't some schools still make kids watch that propoganda TV?
-psy
Run (Score:5, Interesting)
I don't like this one little bit. People I know turning in my address for $$$? That's sneaky and underhanded. I think spam has gone far enough. I do beleive it is the #1 threat on the internet right now. Marketing people need to find another way to solicit me.
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How to make non-profit PROFIT (Score:3, Interesting)
2. Hire geek to write bot to submit addresses 20 at a time to schoolmall
3. Non-profit PROFIT!