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Brian McWilliams' Spam Kings: The Real Story Behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills, and %*@)# Enlargements is a surprisingly good tale. I was expecting more of a survey of the field, but it's instead a well-told narrative with bizarre characters and unexpected developments. In fact, it's a page turner.

You can read the first chapter here.

(But what's with the "%*@)#" in the title? Last time I looked, "penis" wasn't a dirty word. Is it so spam filters won't block messages that talk about the book? But won't the spam filters also catch "porn"?)