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by Mike Masnick




Viagra Maker Sick Of All The Spam

from the sue-everyone! dept

Pfizer, the folks who brought you Viagra, are apparently sick of all the V1*4gRa ads in their email inboxes as well, and have decided it's time for them to do something about it. They're trying to shut down bogus websites and spammers claiming to sell Viagra, and get to the point where someone at Pfizer, with a legitimate reason, will be able to send out an email again that mentions Viagra without having it shot automatically into a spam blackhole.

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    Aug 3rd, 2004 @ 1:44pm
  • Brings to mind a phrase....

    by Oliver Wendell Jones

    Now, what was it....?

    Oh, yes, now I rememeber...

    "IT'S ABOUT FRIGGIN' TIME"...

    Sorry, Pfizer, but if you really cared about protecting the good name of yourself and your products, you should have done something a long time ago (in internet years).

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  • Aug 3rd, 2004 @ 2:09pm
  • About time...

    by Jake

    This is great and all, but how long did this take? I fear that they've simply gotten all they could get out of the free publicity this was providing to help solidify the name "Viagra".

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  • Aug 4th, 2004 @ 7:34am
  • Convient Outrage

    by Anonymous Coward

    Of course they're going to have a problem with unauthorized explotation of their franchise once they've achieved 99% brand recognition.

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  • Apr 20th, 2005 @ 4:35pm
  • No Subject Given

    by leaf

    what does anyone know about consumerdirectrx.. i have been with them fotr three months now, abnd went with one of their add places,, so far nothing has showed up, and no one has ever visited my site

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