Danny O’Brien has written up one of the first summits between spammers and spam-fighters for the Guardian. It’s a great piece.
Surprisingly, no such shootings occur. It’s oddly intimate, watching the spammers and the anti-spammers mill around each other like this. It feels like a temporary ceasefire in a vicious war that to most of us seems to be a stalemate…
Over the past year, though, a series of meetings arranged by a trusted figure in the American anti-spam community, Anne Mitchell, have been slowly bringing the two sides together. These mini-conferences, held under the banner of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, have mostly been between the highest-ranking ISPs – MSN, AOL – and commercial email marketers of the most squeaky clean kind. Initially in secret, these days the meetings are more public.
(via Oblomovka)