"If you wish to have your address removed from this mailing list and sold to scores of additional mailing lists, click here, sucker".

Yahoo said it now had evidence of something that many e-mail users long suspected but had never managed to prove: that spammers take the names of people who ask to be removed from their e-mail lists and sell them to other marketers.

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