To Help MySpace Sell Ads, Photo Site Hires Checkers And Tests Software Filters
The Wall Street Journal, Page One
DENVER — Working quickly, Photobucket.com employee Jeff Gers can look at nearly 150,000 images on his computer screen during an eight-hour shift, or about 300 a minute. His job is to find and destroy anything that might cause offense, a task that’s getting harder all the time.
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Web Service Uses Lawyers, Private Eyes To Track Buffalo Sender of Junk E-Mails
The Wall Street Journal, Page One
ATLANTA — For more than a year, Mary Youngblood has been chasing the “Buffalo Spammer.”
The 34-year-old Ms. Youngblood, who sports a picture of Darth Vader on her company ID badge, works at the headquarters of EarthLink Inc., a bigInternet-access provider. She leads a team of more than a dozen investigators whose job it is to find spammers, hackers and other “bad guys” who haunt the company’s network.
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