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1998-06-05 09:00:00+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

A new card game: Spammers

If you're on the Internet (and we know you are), there's no better way to make money than by sending enormous quantities of Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail. You've seen them. They have subject lines like "Get Thin By Watching Free Cable TV!" and "Foreign Spouses Delivered to Your Door!"

As a hapless net.citizen, you have no recourse. But in SPAMMERS, the (non-collectible) card game of Internet Marketing, you can take the Net in your own hands and reverse the roles. You own the companies and you operate the Scams.

By using technology like Enormous Monitors and Little Black Boxes, you can send Mailings to your own Proprietary Lists or to the Unwashed Masses. You'll mail to groups like Bigots on Parade, the Sex-Starved Teenaged Boys, or Citizens for Decency on Our Net.

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