Think that software pirating is just a problem for the big guys, like Microsoft, or maybe not even so much of a problem at all?

Try telling that to Nigel Cross, owner of Xequte.com, developers of a number of software packages including SmartPix Manager, Mega View, Ez Pix, and Diji Album, among others.

Unfortunately for Cross, one of their software products, “MailList King”, is just ripe for abuse by, and therefore very interesting to, spammers.

Obviously, at least on the face of it, Cross is not catering to spammers, as MailList King represents a tiny fraction of his product line offering, the rest of which has nothing to do with email, or indeed the Internet at all.

However, Aunty asks you, what about the sort of person who does cater to spammers? Are they likely to be otherwise on the up and up?

Not hardly.

So while perhaps shocking, it should not be particularly surprising to learn that… [Continued...]