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This kind of service, promoting mass single opt-in is tailor-made for abuse.

Something similar has been tried before and was shutdown as "spam support": http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

There is no excuse for promoting this malicious garbage.

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Thanks for the link - I had never heard of spamza. It is interesting that it appears to be about 4 years ago. 87 emails in 8 minutes [1] seems pretty pathetic as a spam tool.

for mailbait to keep from the same problem as spamza, it would seem using email confirmation would be the bare minimum they should setup before going public with this.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/spamza-opt-in-spamming-se...

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