AT&T Goes From Preventing Spam, To Spamming Everyone

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Last week AT&T Broadband had a problem where their own marketing messages were stopped by their spam filter. This week, however, it turns out that they accidentally spammed a message to thousands of Usenet newsgroups. I guess they're just making up for all the spams they couldn't get through last week.

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