BBC Spam Email Experiment Badly Researched

The BBC have recently published the findings of a spam email experiment that was conducted in conjunction with McAfee.

Now I’m not totally condemning the article and I’m not denying that spam is a problem and that the unscrupulous go to incredible lengths to acquire the email addresses of millions of innocent internet users and them bombard them constantly.

The problem that I have with this article is that it clearly accuses a website that I know to be ethical and clean of the dubious practices of sending spam emails and selling email addresses to third parties.

The website in question is Free UK Stuff and the site operator Clarke Duncan has rightfully written an open response on his personal blog >> BBC News experiment overloads brain cells of editors.

Anyway in my humble opinion the BBC should have taken more care before publishing this article and definitely contacted Free UK Stuff to see if their assumptions held water, check the full BBC article here >> Spam experiment overloads inboxes << and decide for yourself.