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Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 03, 2010 @03:13PM from the stop-or-i'll-say-stop-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What ever happened to the good old days, when underhanded email practices were only used by shady email marketing companies and spammers? Today, it seems, the mainstream corporate world has begun to employ the same tactics as spammers to track their customers' email. Jonathan Zdziarski noted in a blog entry that AT&T is using web bugs to track email sent to customers. Could this be used for nefarious purposes?"

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AT&T now stands for (Score:4, Funny)

by digitaldc ( 879047 ) * writes: on Friday December 03, 2010 @03:30PM (#34435602)

Advanced Tracking and Trailing

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"Legit Email Marketer" (Score:3, Funny)

by betterunixthanunix ( 980855 ) writes: on Friday December 03, 2010 @03:31PM (#34435614)

I laughed a little bit at that characterization of spam.

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