New Virus spreads through Spam
Posted by Matthew on Monday August 9, 2004 @11:46PM
from the Please-don't-refer-to-unsolicited-phone-texting-as-slashnoting dept.
Matthew writes: Hormel has started a PR blitz to announce that the new virus spreading through spam refers to unsolicited commercial e-mail spreading a computer virus, not their canned meat product spreading a biological virus.
“We let it slide when geeks started referring to unsolicited commercial e-mail as spam, but when news sources like MSNBC are so unclear as to actually make it seem in their headlines that our product is spreading food borne illness, it’s time to take the gloves off.”
“Nobody actually reads MSNBC articles—you just see the headlines on crawlers at the bottom of the screen and on your pager watch. So we’re officially revoking MSNBC’s right to send unsolicited e-mail and call it spam. From now on, they’re going to have to refer to their spam as UCE—unsolicited commercial e-mail. We didn’t want to have to do it, but we had no choice. Let no one say that we’re not taking all possible measures to protect our valuable trademark.