Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife
For Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., the decision to abandon cybersense and invite e-mail spam into her life for a month by participating in a McAfee Inc. experiment was a bit of a lark.
The idea of McAfee's Global SPAM (for Spammed Persistently All Month) Experiment — which fittingly started on April Fool's Day — was to have 50 volunteers from 10 different countries answer every spam message and click on every pop-up ad on their PCs.
What would happen if everyday people, armed with a PC and an e-mail account provided by McAfee did that? Mooney and the rest of the volunteers chronicled the results in the Global SPAM Diaries.
