Quick relief
A slim man with reddish hair told a recent meeting that he is made to feel he doesn't measure up. "In our community the idea of what's average [size] is very distorted," he said.
Purveyors of the products insist they have received more than 90 million orders but are notoriously hard to track down or even identify, and typically they refuse to speak to reporters when found.
According to Wired magazine, some 6,000 people ordered pills from Goringly.biz through the Amazing Internet Products Web site over a four-week period, spending on average US$100 each for two bottles. Wired traced the ownership of AIP to a 19-year-old New Hampshire chess whiz, Braden Bournival, who shied away from a reporter for the magazine who approached him at a chess tournament last summer.
Relief from the barrage of spam may yet be in sight however after Congress passed a law aimed at sharply restricting unsolicited e-mail ads.
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