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Man so unpopular even Groupon refuses to email him

Tony Norris from Stockport has been unveiled as the UK’s most unpopular man following the decision by Groupon, and even global spam emailers, to refrain from attempting to contact him.

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Posted: Sep 28th, 2012
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Action demanded as spirit world becomes plagued with spam

UK spiritualists have defended themselves today following criticism that they have failed to take action to combat the proliferation of spam that is plaguing communications from ‘the other side’.

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Posted: Sep 22nd, 2012
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Man convinced to stay on web page by ‘Leave Page/Stay on Page’ pop-up

‘I had no idea that when I clicked on the big red ‘X’ that closes the window that I’d be leaving the page, contained within that window, that I didn’t want to be on. This is a real turn up for the books.’

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Posted: Apr 7th, 2012
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Spammers’ forum hit with deluge of coherent posts

Spammers around the world were fuming today after discovering that an international spamming forum has been bombarded overnight with coherent, purposeful and well-argued submissions about topical events.

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Posted: Nov 5th, 2011
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New ‘Pam filter’ feature added by email providers

As a result of lobbying from people with friends and relatives called Pam, the big email providers have finally succumbed and added a feature called a ‘Pam filter’. It is seen as a major coup for the ongoing campaign to simplify the detection of emails from people called Pam.

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Posted: Aug 3rd, 2011
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