From our “Ultimate-Irony-Spam-Who-Cried-Wolf” department, Computerworld Australia is reporting that the first live test of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System, following a 6.7 earthquake off Northern Sumatra, failed miserably when the e-mail alerts were blocked as spam.

Aunty’s readers will recall that immediately following the horribly devestating tsunami last December, Tsunami Spammer Christopher Pierson took full advantage of the tragedy, followed closely by copycat wannabee Matthew Schmeider, who had to have been the most inept spammer on the face of the planet (thank goodness).

Perhaps because of these scams, when the real thing came - tsunami warnings following the Northern Sumatra quake - spam blockers, and most particularly SpamAssassin, blocked…

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