Once upon a time, in a USENET group called news.admin.net-abuse.email, a spammer made the following claim: lumber companies lost 6%-11% of their profit because of bulk email. Manny spammers believed this drivel and have acused the lumber cartel of trying to stop spam to once again regain their profits, clear cutting forests and sending paper junk mail to every mailbox in the world.

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