E-mail wars! Back to back in my yahoo mailbox: From Amazon.com: Important test at Amazon.com

Starting today, as a long-term test, you can get Free Super Saver Shipping on orders over $49. Previously, only orders over $99 qualified. Reducing the ordering hurdle to $49 makes it much easier for customers to get free shipping--more people will qualify and qualify more often ...

the very next e-mail, from Buy.com: HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!!

Dear Eric, Amazon claims they 'lowered the hurdle' with their free shipping offer….at buy.com we just ran that hurdle over with our free-shipping truck: Free Shipping with NO MINIMUM PURCHASE.

That ... is funny! One-ups-manship at its finest. On the e-mail note, I've been getting the klez virus in my inbox pretty frequently, all from mail.utexas.edu. Wonder if anyone else is seeing a lot of that?