Net users may soon be longing for the good old days when electronic spam
filled their e-mail boxes quietly. A Californian company has developed a compact
Java applet that can be e-mailed to make spam talk or play music. When someone
opens the e-mail, a 7-kilobyte applet automatically launches itself, 鈥渟o every
desktop computer that receives the e-mail can instantly hear the enticing tones
of the sponsor鈥檚 message鈥�, according to the system鈥檚 developers, AudioBase of
Sausalito. AudioBase has already signed up two companies that admit sending tens
of millions of e-mails a month. The system runs on any e-mail program that can
open HTML documents.
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