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May 31, 2006

EMAIL Hell - Look for a Zero Percent Increase in the Price of Hollywood Intermediate

The problem with modern spam is that the spammers make money even if no one pays any attention to the ads. For example, consider this spam service, in which the guy charges a fee to blast your ad all over the Internet. Even if the ad is mind-boggingly stupid, he gets to keep his fee. And by the way, he doesn't use EMAIL to advertise his particular service: he uses blog comment spam.

I mention this particular aspect of spamming, because for the past several weeks we've been getting tons of spam EMAILs touting a penny stock for Hollywood Intermediate. Hollywood Intermediate does digital special effects for movies. For weeks the stock price has been hovering around $1.30 a share while the Internet backbone hums with multilingual EMAILs announcing that the price is about to go through the roof.

So, here, direct from Yahoo, is a live graph of Hollywood Intermediate's stock price. Yesterday it closed up 2% from its price over the holiday weekend, which is just a bit smaller than the 30% promised in the spam EMAIL.

Years from now you'll be able to come back to this page, and chances are the price will still be crawling up and down the narrow band surrounding $1.30 a share.

And I would not be at all surprised if I were still getting spam EMAILs telling me to buy it now before the price goes up, up, up.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

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