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WWJ Newsletter: Latest Issue

On Friday, Yahoo Asia News carried an interesting Kyodo story on mobile spam in Japan. According to the report, Japanese mobilers are being swamped with junk email despite all-out efforts by the cellcos to eliminate the nuisance. Much of the spam (meiwaku) mail advertises adult web sites and is sent in bulk to millions of mobiles from regular spam servers — that’s the, uhmmm, beauty of Japan’s reliance on Net-standard email rather than SMS for mobile messaging.The latest edition of the WWJ email newsletter is available online here.

Posted: 7 February 2005 | Filed: Editor's Note, Newsletter | Feedback | Print |

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