About 57 million Italian users have received today an sms from the Government reminding them about the European Elections during the week-end. The initiative has generated a lot of polemics first, because over 5 million euros have been spent to send the message, second because this is the perfect example of unsolicited communication.

yes, but did it work? if they only send it once at each election, you wonder how much this is really spam vs. a public service. what about using sms as an emergency notification system?

Posted by: johnza at June 12, 2004 02:47 PM