On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, chris wrote:
> I do like AOL's recent giveaway. They are giving away the BMW that
> belongs to a spammer that just successfully sued. They are doing a random
> drawing of all AOL members, someone gets the car. I guess if it isn't
> legal to post his head on a spike in front of AOL headquarters as a
> warning to all other spammers, giving away his car is the next best thing?
Haha! That's fantastic! They should put a cardboard cutout of the guy
next to the car in the promo ads with his hand up in the air waving and a
big stupid grin on his face.
Here's an article about it. It's actually a Porsche!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3581435.stm
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