Scammers Setting Up Do Not Email Lists To Give To Spammers

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Spammers, Miscreants, Scammers, Etc

Spammers, Miscreants, Scammers, Etc 12/30/2003 01:23 AM
How on earth are we supposed to be able to believe anything we see on the internet, including message coming from our ISP’s, Friends, FAMILY ? Scammers, and Spammers have take over nearly every type of communication we have, including...

NLM eMail Lists

NLM eMail Lists 11/10/2003 10:50 PM
NLM eMail Lists
http://www.nlm. nih.gov/listserv/emaillists.html

NLM Email Lists is a service which allows users to subscribe to announcement and discussion lists hosted by the National Library of Medicine. Through this service, users can receive list postings, access list archives, and post messages to a list. The NLM Email List service is administered by the Center for Information Technology (CIT) at the National Institutes of Health using LISTSERV®, an email list management software package.

Setting up an Email Gateway to Block
Spam

Setting up an Email Gateway to Block
Spam 04/26/2004 07:39 AM

AOL says spammers are starting to give
up

AOL says spammers are starting to give
up 12/28/2004 05:37 PM
TechSpot Dec 28 2004 9:41PM GMT

Email lists struggle under spam
avalanche

Email lists struggle under spam
avalanche 04/14/2004 02:36 PM

Spammers Kill Email Support

Spammers Kill Email Support 04/10/2005 11:54 PM

The spammers win again. A hosting company we work with sent me this in reponse to a support email I sent. I used to email their support desk all the time with great results. It was really handy. Now:

Due to high volumes of Unsolicited Commercial Email (SPAM), this incident will not be responded to. We can only answer questions through our Knowledge Base or our Web Form.

I deperately need to punch a spammer in the mouth right now.

Spammers embrace email authentication

Spammers embrace email authentication 09/03/2004 10:11 AM
Junk mail tsunami continues unabated

AOL Employee Arrested For Selling Email
Addresses To Spammers

AOL Employee Arrested For Selling Email
Addresses To Spammers 06/23/2004 07:00 PM
People have always claimed that AOL often gave out their email addresses to spammers, though many have questioned whether or not that was true. One that that's clear is they make it way too easy for employees of the company to access customer information. A few months ago we wrote about an AOL customer service rep who used the info she had access to in order to insinuate herself into the lives of celebrities who used AOL. The latest is that a 24-year-old engineer at the company has been arrested for selling a database of 92 million AOL user email addresses along with their phone numbers and zip codes. He sold this database to some spammers for about $50,000. How long until a class action suit is filed by AOL customers because the company didn't protect their info?

Email Marketers Struggling With Can
Spam, Spammers Doing Just Fine

Email Marketers Struggling With Can
Spam, Spammers Doing Just Fine 06/01/2004 10:55 AM
It's been quite clear for some time that many spammers have absolutely no intention of paying attention to any spam-related laws, such as CAN-SPAM. However, for (more) legitimate email marketers, the new regulations are already quite a hassle - with many of them failing to follow the requirements, putting them at risk of getting sued. This is a bit amusing, considering it was these so-called "legitimate marketers" who were so adamant about having CAN-SPAM passed in a way that would let them "legitimately" spam more easily. Now, what they're realizing is that they've added more trouble for themselves without doing much of anything to actually stop the spam that drowns out their own messages.

Spammers Technique of Bugging Email
Stopped by Messagewash

Spammers Technique of Bugging Email
Stopped by Messagewash 08/31/2004 02:11 AM
By using a so called "web bug" spammers are able to determine which email addresses are active without any interaction of the recipient. [PRWEB Aug 31, 2004]

Students Upset To Give Up Email In The
Real World

Students Upset To Give Up Email In The
Real World 06/17/2004 05:16 AM
Here's yet another sign that the economy must be improving: the biggest complaint that some students have coming out of college isn't that they can't find a job or don't know what they want to do with their lives, but that they're going to lose their college email account. Somehow, I think they'll get over it. Still, it does make you wonder why most universities don't keep those emails as forwarding addresses. The NY Times reporter claims that all university forwarding addresses are different from the student's addresses - but that's not true. My alma mater is kind enough to let everyone keep their email addresses forever as forwarding addresses. Besides, in this day and age, I'm surprised that some people rely so much on their university email address. Most students graduating today were likely to have had internet access before they got to college, so I would have expected many students to already be comfortable with a non-university address when they entered school.

Anti-Spam - Fight Back Against Spammers
junk unsolicited unwanted bulk huge
commercial email spams e-mail! FREE

Anti-Spam - Fight Back Against Spammers
junk unsolicited unwanted bulk huge
commercial email spams e-mail! FREE 04/24/2004 11:48 AM
Anti-Spam - Fight Back

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CSS cribsheets, cheatsheets, shortcut
lists, syntax lists and tips

CSS cribsheets, cheatsheets, shortcut
lists, syntax lists and tips 09/15/2004 12:35 AM
The best collection of CSS tips we've ever seen, gathered from our members and all together in one spot. This reference thread will supercharge your stylesheets and simplify your workload.

Referer spammers are comment spammers
too

Referer spammers are comment spammers
too 02/01/2005 10:08 PM
Is there a connection between referer spamming tools such as Reffy, and mass comment spamming in Movable Type?

More Spammers Threatening To Sue
Anti-Spammers

More Spammers Threatening To Sue
Anti-Spammers 06/11/2004 12:55 PM
It looks like the various spam laws that help legalize spam are making the spammers extra litigious. Following a lawsuit in the US by a spammer against an anti-spam operation for still block their email, some spammers in the UK are threatening Spamhaus with lawsuits for still having them on their blacklist. The problem is that, just because the law now gives them the permission to spam, it doesn't mean people aren't allowed to make their own private efforts to block them. The laws may allow them to send their spam, but there's nothing in these laws that require people to receive it.

Webl0ggers: Give to tsunami victims and
I'll give too! (Anders Jacobsen's bl0g)

Webl0ggers: Give to tsunami victims and
I'll give too! (Anders Jacobsen's bl0g) 01/03/2005 08:22 AM
Webloggers: Give to tsunami victims and I’ll give too! .. dans cet article de son blog .. Ander’s list

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Mailqube to Support Sender ID. Leader in
enterprise email security supports new
email sender authentication standard in
its Mailqube 2003 secure email gateway

Mailqube to Support Sender ID. Leader in
enterprise email security supports new
email sender authentication standard in
its Mailqube 2003 secure email gateway 09/05/2004 02:37 AM
Atlantic Sky has announced its support to the Sender ID standard for email sender authentication. Atlantic Sky's support will make Sender ID available to global enterprises through its Mailqube 2003 E-mail gateway. [PRWEB Sep 5, 2004]

New Louisiana hosting company to give to
major charities. St. Jude, Habitat, and
March of Dimes named as a few they will
give to.

New Louisiana hosting company to give to
major charities. St. Jude, Habitat, and
March of Dimes named as a few they will
give to. 07/22/2004 03:01 AM
[PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

Give Me Death and Give Me Liberty
(19-Jan-2004; 0.8K)

Give Me Death and Give Me Liberty
(19-Jan-2004; 0.8K) 01/22/2004 02:38 AM

Attn: Buyers of MAILING LISTs - MORTGAGE
LEADs - BUSINESS LISTs & DIRECT
MARKETING SERVICEs : TOTAL Marketing One
- TMONE launches Direct Mail List and
Sales lead business unit and becomes one
of the most competitive list marketing
agencies.

Attn: Buyers of MAILING LISTs - MORTGAGE
LEADs - BUSINESS LISTs & DIRECT
MARKETING SERVICEs : TOTAL Marketing One
- TMONE launches Direct Mail List and
Sales lead business unit and becomes one
of the most competitive list marketing
agencies. 07/13/2004 03:44 AM
TOTAL Marketing One, an industry leader in the contact center services world announced the creation of a new business unit catering to the needs of all companies in all industries with respect to their marketing list and sales lead needs. [PRWEB Jul 13, 2004]

Scammers Going To Jail

Scammers Going To Jail 05/18/2004 11:52 AM
It looks like some internet scammers are finally getting some serious jailtime. A man who was caught running a phishing scam has just been sentenced to 46 months in prison. Meanwhile, the guy who conned lots of Wall Street insiders out of half a million dollars by telling them he was sellin g pre-IPO shares in Google has entered a guilty plea in the case, and now faces 51 to 63 months in jail. I have no problem putting such obvious scammers in jail for breaking the law. I do wonder, however, if the punishment really fits the crime.

HotJobs For Scammers!

HotJobs For Scammers! 05/17/2004 04:36 AM
We first posted about scammers (often those same Eastern European organized crime groups who are having so much fun with spam and phishing operations) using job boards like Monster and HotJobs to recruit suckers to launder money for them a year ago. Now, however, the NY Times has picked up on the story and it looks like (as these things are known to do) the scam has changed a bit. Last year, the scammers would hire unsuspecting rubes to ship packages to Eastern Europe. They would claim to be a shipping company that was hiring people in the US in their spare time to pass on the packages. Lots of people fell for it. The latest trick, though, is for the scammers to claim to be software companies in Eastern Europe looking to accept payments from US customers - and thus, in need of someone in the US to handle their "payment processing." They post these ads on the job boards and when people answer them, they're expected to receive payments into their personal PayPal account and then send the money to Eastern Europe. Of course, what happens is that PayPal/eBay eventually notices an awful lot of money going into this account and is alerted that it's from stolen credit cards. The sucker who's been passing on the money is told they need to pay it back to PayPal while the folks in Eastern Europe invest in more ads on these job boards. The article mostly focuses on the fact that those tricked are angry at the job websites for not protecting them against such frauds. Some are worried that these types of frauds may end up damaging the reputations of the job sites. While that is a risk, I still can't believe anyone would ever agree to process payments into their personal account and send it on to Eastern Europe without suspecting something was not right.

16 scammers fined £1.3m

16 scammers fined £1.3m 04/01/2005 11:17 AM
Premium rate watchdog acts

New IE bug may be scammers best friend

New IE bug may be scammers best friend 12/10/2003 01:13 AM
ZDNet Australia Dec 10 2003 0:24AM ET

Microsoft goes after Scammers

Microsoft goes after Scammers 04/03/2005 03:56 PM
About Apr 3 2005 7:45PM GMT

Text scammers fined £450,000

Text scammers fined £450,000 05/24/2004 10:32 AM
'Justice has been done' says UK e-minister

Artists Against 419 Takes On Scammers

Artists Against 419 Takes On Scammers 05/02/2004 07:46 PM

Nigerian Scammers get Busted

Nigerian Scammers get Busted 07/01/2004 01:58 AM
According to ABC News, the old Nigerian money scam is alive and well. Even with a major raid by the Nigerian government, there are still Nigerian “Kingpins that remain untouchable. The best defense against this sort of scam is in my opinion, a combination of common sense and education on the subject.

Baiting 419 Scammers For Sport

Baiting 419 Scammers For Sport 11/17/2003 04:17 AM
There have been an increasing number of "filler" stories from reporters who need something to write about and notice a 419 scam email in their inbox and decide to write the scammer back. Either these reporters don't realize that this article has been written 100 times before, or they just don't care. However, a group of other folks have decided that instead of using the experience to write up an article, they're going to do their best to publicly humiliate 419 scammers. It's turned into something of a sport for many - who create elaborate personas and stories in order to scam the 419ers themselves. Of course, they're trying to trick them out of their dignity, rather than their money.

BT cuts off dialler scammers

BT cuts off dialler scammers 06/30/2004 11:09 AM
Pull the plug first, ask questions later...

Scammers use Gmail invit

Scammers use Gmail invit 09/15/2004 02:59 PM
Techzonez Sep 15 2004 6:44PM GMT

Microsoft Sues 117 Scammers

Microsoft Sues 117 Scammers 04/02/2005 08:31 PM
CIO Today Apr 3 2005 12:49AM GMT

Nigeria Arrests 419 Scammers

Nigeria Arrests 419 Scammers 07/06/2004 01:42 PM

Nigeria arrests 500 suspected email scammers: Nigeria finally took some action on 419 scammers. I hereby retract this post.

Nigeria's agency against economic and financial crime said Monday that it had detained more than 500 suspects and seized property worth more than $US500 million from suspected fraudsters.

[...] The EFCC had demonstrated its resolve and commitment by arresting many previously "untouchable 419 kingpins", said Ribadu, a former senior police intelligence officer.

Although the identities of those in EFCC custody are not formally revealed, observers noted that they included legislators, lawyers, politicians, bankers and public functionaries.

A couple points to note here. First, look at the type of people arrested: lawyers, legislators (!), politicians, etc. Nice. Second, they seized $500 million? 419 scamming was evidently going well for these folks.

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More on Scammers Abusing TTY Services

More on Scammers Abusing TTY Services 04/15/2004 01:00 PM

trimMail's Email Battles: CERT Reveals
Email, AntiVirus Software Bugs

trimMail's Email Battles: CERT Reveals
Email, AntiVirus Software Bugs 12/28/2004 11:37 AM
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Executive Email: Preserving and
Enhancing the Benefits of Email — A
Progress Report

Executive Email: Preserving and
Enhancing the Benefits of Email — A
Progress Report 06/28/2004 03:12 PM
In the latest in an occasional series of e-mails to Microsoft customers, Microsoft's chairman provides an update on the progress of efforts to curb the epidemic of junk e-mail.

Free Email Notifier for POP3, IMAP4 and
Gmail Email Accounts

Free Email Notifier for POP3, IMAP4 and
Gmail Email Accounts 06/17/2005 03:17 PM
Chrysanth Software has released Chrysanth Email Notifier v2.3, a free POP3, IMAP4 and Gmail notification software that helps you to get notified of every incoming email and even spams in your mail boxes while they are still sitting on the remote email servers. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2005]

Scammers target Westpac customers

Scammers target Westpac customers 11/02/2003 10:55 PM
ZDNet Australia Nov 2 2003 9:29PM ET

Software To Catch Nigerian 419 Scammers

Software To Catch Nigerian 419 Scammers 06/07/2004 01:56 PM
If you've ever received an email from Nigeria asking for a small sum of money in order to get millions, you know what the 419 scam is. (Or you're still waiting for a lot of money that hasn't quite shown up yet.) The '419' comes from the Nigerian criminal code section against fraud, and to prevent the scams, Nigeria is looking into using software to help track down the scammers by scanning emails for keywords. This brings up plenty of privacy issues over who determines which keywords are used and what is done with the flagged emails. And while this proposal is probably better than passing a completely new law that would probably be ineffective, the enforcement against this scam may be a bit late as scammers have modified their scams and moved to places other than Nigeria. So scams are here to stay, and although one would hope that public education could take away the incentives for scammers, there's a sucker born every minute.
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Feeding on Itself: the list of lists

Feeding on Itself: the list of lists 12/31/2003 07:23 PM
Feeding on Itself: the list of lists This is a metalist, that is, a list of all the lists produced for each category of the usual year's end roundups. Example for best book there are some 18 different lists (link to) places presenting such lists. check your favorite list topics and list sources and see whether you agree. Or not.

List All People Not On Lists

List All People Not On Lists 05/21/2004 05:41 AM
List All People Not On Lists
http:// www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994961

KnowItAll, a search engine under development at the University of Washington and partially funded by DARPA and Google, trawls the Web for data and then collates it in the form of a list providing information that probably doesn't exist on any single Web page. The ultimate aim is to have KnowItAll answer questions such as "list all British scientists born before 1900." For any input noun (such as "scientists," "guitarists," etc.) the engine tries to find sentences on Web sites that contain that noun and looks for words that often appear after it. In this way it might find the phrases "scientists such as" and "scientists including," which it then feeds to 12 search engines and extracts the words that tend to follow (which are often scientists' names). KnowItAll then returns a long list of scientists' names, each one accompanied by its percentage probability of being correct, as measured by frequency of occurrence of the names on Web sites. Users will be able to choose the level of confidence they want in the data.

Taning Lists from A List Apart

Taning Lists from A List Apart 10/02/2002 08:53 AM

Online music singles sales blow away CD
singles

Online music singles sales blow away CD
singles 11/03/2003 12:18 PM

Online Music Singles Sales Blow Away CD
Singles

Online Music Singles Sales Blow Away CD
Singles 11/03/2003 12:18 PM

Nigeria: Nigeria Could Take Internet
City Lead From Emirates

Nigeria: Nigeria Could Take Internet
City Lead From Emirates 12/19/2003 05:08 PM
AllAfrica.com Dec 19 2003 3:46PM ET

Nigeria: Microsoft's Powerful Statement
On Nigeria

Nigeria: Microsoft's Powerful Statement
On Nigeria 12/31/2004 04:54 PM
AllAfrica.com Dec 31 2004 8:05PM GMT

Nigeria: Internet Usage in Nigeria Still
Low - Ojuri

Nigeria: Internet Usage in Nigeria Still
Low - Ojuri 12/31/2004 04:54 PM
AllAfrica.com Dec 31 2004 8:05PM GMT

Microsoft Lists Programs Incompatible
with SP2 August 16 - 7:12 PM ET
Microsoft has compiled a list of incompa

Microsoft Lists Programs Incompatible
with SP2 August 16 - 7:12 PM ET
Microsoft has compiled a list of incompa 08/17/2004 12:09 AM
BetaNews Aug 17 2004 4:16AM GMT

BBC outsource deal includes staff black
list

BBC outsource deal includes staff black
list 06/16/2004 07:03 AM
Buy an IT dept, get free list of P45 candidates

Black Friday - After Thanksgiving Day
Sales List 2003

Black Friday - After Thanksgiving Day
Sales List 2003 11/19/2003 12:31 AM
Techfocus Nov 19 2003 0:05AM ET

Direct Marketers : TMONE launches Direct
Mail Lists and Sales Lead Business Unit
and Becomes One of the Most Competitive
List Marketing Agencies.

Direct Marketers : TMONE launches Direct
Mail Lists and Sales Lead Business Unit
and Becomes One of the Most Competitive
List Marketing Agencies. 07/13/2004 03:08 AM
Total Marketing One, an industry leader in the contact center services world announced the creation of a new business unit catering to the needs of all companies in all industries with respect to their marketing list and sales lead needs. [PRWEB Jul 13, 2004]

Communication Technologies, Inc.
(COMTek) is a Leading Facilities-Based
Broadband Telecommunications Company as
Ranked by Black Enterprise 100 List

Communication Technologies, Inc.
(COMTek) is a Leading Facilities-Based
Broadband Telecommunications Company as
Ranked by Black Enterprise 100 List 05/31/2004 02:16 PM
Communication Technologies Inc., (COMTek), a national leader in delivering trusted information technology and telecommunications solutions for mission-critical environments, announced today that Black Enterprise Magazine, a distinguished national business publication, has ranked it as a leading facilities-based broadband telecommunications service company in the magazine’s 2004 Black Enterprise Industrial /Service 100 list (BE100). The BE 100s list features the largest black-owned businesses in the nation. [PRWEB May 30, 2004]

HOW TO
SAVE THE WORLD READING LIST

HOW TO
SAVE THE WORLD READING LIST 07/18/2004 03:41 PM

In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn says: People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Probably, once upon a time, you weren't ready to listen to an idea than now seems to you obvious, even urgent. Let people come to it in their own time. Nagging or bullying will only alienate them. Don't preach. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new. When presenting a new idea, you don't have to have all the answers. It's better to say 'I don't know' than to fake it. Make people formulate their own questions. Don't take on the responsibility of figuring out what their difficulty is. We each internalize information differently. If you don't understand a question, keep insisting they explain it until it's clear. Nine times out of ten they'll supply the answer themselves. Above all, listen. Your close attention is sometimes more important than your articulateness in winning converts. And learning is always a good thing. When I've talked to people about the ideas I've presented in this blog, I get the sense that maybe 10% really understand and appreciate what I'm saying. Perhaps another 40% are ready to listen and want to believe, but either my inarticulateness or their internalization mechanism garbles the message. After all, saving the world (or, as one recent commenter 'geo' put it more accurately "changing how humans live so we as a species can continue to survive") is not easy or obvious, or we'd all be busy doing it. This reading list is for that 40%, in the hope that better writers than I can convey more clearly and compellingly what we need to do and why. The remaining 50%, I suspect, are not ready. Five years ago someone gave me The Spell of the Sensuous and I gave up after five pages -- I just wasn't ready. Here's the list -- 56 books and articles that forever changed my worldview, and my purpose for living:: What Life was Really Like Before Civilization: Revisionist History Full House, by the late Stephen J. Gould. The presence of man on Earth was a random occurrence, and after the next Extinction Event life on the planet is likely to evolve differently. We are not the Crown of Creation. The Wealth of Man by Peter Jay. The life of pre-historic man was easy, idyllic, and very pleasant. Hunt big slow game an hour a day, relax and enjoy the rest. The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race, (online) essay by Jared Diamond Why the adoption of agriculture was 'a catastrophe from which we have never recovered'. Original Affluence, by Marshall Sahlins. If you wanted to defend a new society that featured rigid hierarchy, agonizingly hard work, suffering, frequent starvation and slavery, wouldn't you try to portray the alternative life as 'short, nasty and brutish'? Extinction, by Michael Boulter. Our planet's history is one of cycles punctuated by massive extinctions and new beginnings. Our only choice is whether to end this one sooner (a century) or later (several millennia). The Axemaker's Gift by Jame s Burke and Robert Ornstein. How innovativeness has been increasingly corrupted to concentrate and retain power, instead of making the world better. What's Going On Under our Noses: The Real News The Unconscious Civilization, by John Ralston Saul. How and why we've become helpless slaves of the political and economic system we built. Ockham's Razor, by Wade Rowland. What's wrong with our modern values, and where to look for new ones. People Before Profit, by Charles Derber -- How rampant corporatism ravaged the vast majority of people worldwide in the 1800s, and is doing so again. State of the World, by WorldWatch Institute, The 7 trends that most threaten eco-collapse: population growth, rising temperature, falling water tables, shrinking cropland per person, collapsing fisheries, shrinking forests, and the extinction of plant and animal species. World Scientists' Warning (online), by the Union of Concerned Scientists. "Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished. A great change in our stewardship of the Earth and life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated." Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry. "We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story." The Future of Freedom, by Fareed Zakaria Why we can't change another country's culture from outside it. The New Rules of the World, by John Pilger An accurate, devastating portrait of the world in 2003. The Demon in the Freezer, by Richard Preston. How vulnerable we all are to individual acts of terror, chaos and sabotage. Against the Grain, by Richard Manning. How grain monoculture evolved, and how it's ruining the Earth. Population Projections, by US Census Bureau. They're no longer assuring us that US and Global Population will level out at 300 million and 9 billion. Would you believe 1 billion and 12 billion by the end of the century, and still rising? Global Warming, by NOAA. An online synopsis of US scientists' consensus on the causes and consequences of global warming. This Overheating World - Worried? Us? (online essay) by Bill McKibben. Article in the UK journal Granta explaining the psychology, and cynical political expediency, of denial. Are Cities Changing Local and Global Climates?, (online) by NASA. Studies of urban microclimates and how they contribute to local climate change and instability. Restoring Scientific Integrity (online) by Union of Concerned Scientists. The Bush regime's distortion of scientific research to forward its own political agenda. Climate Collapse, by David Stipp (online article) from Fortune Magazine. The possibility and chilling implications of global warming producing sudden drastic climate shifts. Conservative Myths on Global Warming (online) by Blogger Carpe Datum. A brief but thorough explanation of the science behind global warming, and the reasoning behind scientists' connecting it to human activity and worrying about the risks of resultant instability The Empire Strikes Out, by Kenny Ausubel. Corporatism and acquisitiveness run amok are ruining our world, but nature always bats last. The Tragedy of the Commons, by Garry Harding. The commons, that which belongs in common to all of us, is disappearing -- Why nobody really cares. Elizabeth Costello, by JM Coetzee. Why we tolerate a holocaust against our fellow creatures on Earth. The Machine in Our Heads, by Glenn Parton. How the ecological crisis is rooted in a human psychological crisis. About Gaia: What Nature is Really About When Elephants Weep, by Jeff Masson. Compelling scientific evidence that animals feel deep emotions. Mind of the Raven, by Bernd Heinrich. Compelling scientific evidence that animals are intelligent, complex, rational and communicative. The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki. A passionate explanation of James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis, the need to redesign how we live, and the importance of spending more time in nature. The Hidden Dimension, by Edward Hall. We need space and a natural environment to be healthy and human. When we're deprived of them, we get mentally ill. The Spell of the Sensuous, by David Abram. How to reconnect with nature, and rediscover wonder. Radical Analysis, Radical Solutions (these are the most important readings, but you probably won't 'buy' their arguments unless you've first read much of the material above) Ishmael, The Story of B, and Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn. Also the IshCon discussion forum. The first two of these three books are fictionalized stories about human history from a different, anti-civilization perspective, with penetrating, astounding analysis and insight. Ishmael is more popular but I prefer The Story of B which recapitulates the entire theses in a series of 'lectures'. The two critical lectures are online here. Beyond Civilization is about what we should do about all this. A Language Older Than Words, by Derrick Jensen. A profound and disturbing argument for why moderate answers to our current predicament won't work. The World We Want, by Mark Kingwell. Why we are best served by trusting our instincts rather than what we are persuaded is moral or rational. Toolkit for Change: Knowledge We Can Use to Save the World Freeman Dyson's Brain (online interview), in Wired Magazine. The twin keys to building a better world are (a) establishing viable self-sufficient local communities to replace big centralized states and governments, and (b) selective more-with-less technologies like solar/wind energy coops and biotech medicines. The Developing Ideas Interview (online) with economist Herman Daly. An economic and tax program that favours communities and commons instead of corporations, and a 'contract' to reduce our population and ecological footprint. The Unconquerable World, by Jon Schell. Why non-violence and consensus-building are the only viable way forward. The Support Economy, by Shoshana Zuboff A model for a post-capitalist economy. Unequal Protection, by Thom Hartmann. The case for denying 'personhood' to corporations. When Corporations Rule the World, by David Korten. The need to get corporations out of politics and create localized economies that empower communities within a system of global cooperation, overcoming the myths about economic growth and the sanctification of greed, and focusing instead on overconsumption, poverty, overpopulation, and reining in untrammelled corporate power. Radical Simplicity, by Jim Merkel. How to free yourself from possessions and wage slavery without sacrifice. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell. What makes things change. Ten Ways to Make a Difference, by Peter Singer. A pragmatic recipe for change. The Truth About Stories, by Thomas King. The truth about stories is that that's all we are. Want a new society? Write a new story. The Boycott List, by Responsible Shopper, and Good Stuff, by the WorldWatch Institute. What not to buy, and what to buy instead. The Corporation, by Joel Bakan. An action plan for undermining corporatism. Humans in the Wilderness, by Glenn Parton. How we might reintroduce humans, well-spaced-out, into a primarily wilderness Earth. At Home in the Universe, by S tuart Kauffman. How self-organizing, self-managing systems work. EarthDance (entire book online), by Elisabet Sahtouris. Eleven steps to cultural metamorphosis (my summary is here) eGaia (entire book online), by Gary Alexander. How to achieve of peace, cooperation and sustainability (replacing war, competition and growth, the fuels of our current culture) and a future state vision with vignettes from individuals' lives in a balanced and harmonious future world.

A BLOGGER'S
CHRISTMAS WISH LIST

A BLOGGER'S
CHRISTMAS WISH LIST 12/19/2004 02:54 PM

11.	A simple way to simultaneously send new blog articles, as they are posted, to any number of user-maintained, editable e-mail lists (from which people could easily unsubscribe, of course).
10.	An automatically maintained Table of Contents with one-sentence abstracts for each of your blog posts, editable by you and sortable by your readers by title, date, and category/sub-category.
9.	A simple, meaningful measure of total readership, that weighs blog hits, visits, average duration of stay, RSS subscriptions, inbound blogs, e-mail subscriptions, and visits to copies of your posts on aggregators.
8.	An ability to create standing-order 'profiles' for all blogs, as you now can for newsfeeds, so that you can receive a single daily e-mail or web page that aggregates everything posted that day, anywhere in the blogosphere, on a specific topic or containing specific keywords or phrases.
7.	A gigabyte or two of free storage on the hosted blog server, so you can keep a copy of your entire My Documents folder on the server, link to anything in it from your blog without having to FTP a copy, and be able to access your entire 'e-filing cabinet' from any computer anywhere anytime.
6.	An easy migration path from the asynchronous, polished anonymity of the blog to the real-time, one-to-one, face-to-face or voice-to-voice, halting interactive iterative intimacy of other media, media that move you from talk to action.
5.	Inclusion of our posts, if we want them to be, in Google News.
4.	More first-person accounts, first-hand news, live photos and reports, and investigative reporting in the blogosphere.
3.	A blogging tool so simple even our parents can maintain one.
2.	No more fear of your blog or your computer crashing and irretrievably losing everything you've written on your blog.
1.	The end of the terms 'weblog', 'blog' and 'blogger', and to be simply called An Online Journalist.

ACTIVE SALON
BLOGS LIST UPDATED

ACTIVE SALON
BLOGS LIST UPDATED 01/10/2004 03:19 PM

I've updated the Dire ctory of Active Salon Blogs. Please send me details on any missing and new Salon Blogs, and errors in the Directory. I promise to post any updates I receive at least once a week. There are now 159 active (updated in the last month, or officially on vacation but returning) Salon Blogs. Comings & Goings this past month: No longer blogging, it seems: The enormously helpful Charlie Z at Driver 8, the enormously successful Julie Powell of the Julie/Julia Project, Ray of Nobody Loves Raymond, whose blog is MIA, great story-teller Hugh Elliott at Standing Room Only, and Cat M. of Chronicles of an Anti-Apathetic. Their presence in this part of the blogosphere will be sorely missed. Good news: Penny of My So-Called Lesbian Life is back. Daniel X. O'Neil, the veteran Salon blogger at GoogObits who uniquely chronicles the deceased, has moved to his own site. The flight from Radio to Typepad seems to have stopped, at least for now. Of the roughly 100 new Salon Blog numbers assigned this past month, about 40 actually made at least one post, and the following 17 appear to be posting regularly. I especially recommend MallowDrama, Hermit's Notebook, Hoi Polloi and I Don't Know What Happened, which are off to sensational starts. Welcome, new Sloggers all. Althaea Officinalis: MallowDrama Hermit's Notebook, A Theater of the Absurd Much,Much,More of This and That Letters to Jessica Worms of Endearment Arclist Gabriela's Radio Weblog Music Freak's dip into blog-infested waters Hoi Polloi I Don't Know What Happened Living Backstage You're Getting Very Sleepy Frances D. Gonzalez's Radio Weblog Blogcabin - Come Warm Yourself By The Fire Pan's Garden 75003 Paris Some stats for this past month: Total hits this month for Salon Blogs were about 1.1 million, up about 8% for the month, but they were very unevenly distributed (even more than usual), with 850 thousand of these hits going to the top 11 blogs. For the typical Slogger, December traffic was about 10% quieter than November, due probably to the holidays. The median for active Salon Bloggers was only about 700 hits per month, about 30 per day. Inbound blogs totaled about 3250, up about 5% month-over-month, with the top 11 blogs accounting for 50% of them. The median for active Salon Bloggers was 7 inbound blogs. About 42% of active Sloggers are female, up significantly from just over 30% three months ago. That's great news, but I don't know what to make of it. I'll continue to keep the Directory current, with your help, and will report at least bi-monthly on comings & goings and stats. P.S. I've also updated my Tables of Contents (see top left of my blog). Since Google has, for some reason, stopped crawling How to Save the World, Google is no longer a reliable way to find things in my archives. I'm going to test some other search engines and change my search bar accordingly.

HELP COMPILE
"THE WEB USER'S ESSENTIAL LINKS AND FREE
DOWNLOADS" LIST

HELP COMPILE
"THE WEB USER'S ESSENTIAL LINKS AND FREE
DOWNLOADS" LIST 06/07/2004 02:25 PM

My Salon Blog colleague Ted Ritzer keeps a list of Useful Web Sites (for all web users, not just bloggers) originally compiled by Kevin Kelly, of Wired, The Well, and Whole Earth Catalog fame. Kevin no longer maintains his list, and instead has an intriguing Cool Tools site, but it's only for the rich -- virtually everything on the site costs money, often a lot of it. So Ted and I agreed it's time to update the Useful Web Sites list, and we need your help. What links and free downloads should every self-respecting Internet user have on their desktop? The list should not include pay sites, nor should it include news sites, blogs or other sites that appear on blogrolls (too many, and too subjective). Nor should it include highly specialized sites (I have a personal list of favourite genealogy sites, but I realize that few people would consider these 'essential'). To make the list manageable, I've identified 21 categories for the essential links (let me know if you think I've missed an entire category). If I get enough response, I'll publish a list of the Top 3 in each category and keep it on my sidebar or Spurl it (Spurl lets you keep your web bookmarks online and share them with others). The examples shown for each category are my personal favourites and some of them are eccentric, so they may not make the Top 3 list. Quite a few of them come from the excellent Jason Lefkowitz' Quality Software list (thanks to Internet Time for the link): Search engines -- e.g. Google Converters, voice recognition tools and translators -- e.g. Reverso Language Translation Internet browsing tools and aids -- e.g. Firefox browser, Xne ws newsreader Website composing and management tools -- e.g. HTML-Kit web page editor Publishing tools - e.g. PDFCreator Word processing and office productivity -- e.g. OpenOffice File and desktop management -- e.g. FilZip compression software, Furl digital filing cabinet Writing aids -- e.g. The 39 Steps, Rhymezone Reference tools -- e.g. IMDB movie & TV show database Music and book sellers -- e.g. FYE, CDBaby, McNally Robinson Consumer information -- e.g. CNet product reviews File sharing tools Internet streaming radio/video -- e.g. ShoutCast Connectivity and discussion tools -- e.g. Thunderbird e-mail, SightSpeed videoconferencing, Trillian IM and chat integrator, Skype VoIP Multimedia tools -- e.g. PhotoPl us image editor, IrfanView image viewer Website/RSS feed aggregation tools -- e.g. BlogLines site aggregator, Spurl online bookmarking Network/community builders and expertise finders Software download sites -- e.g. Download.com, Tucows Investment tools and information -- e.g. MLS real estate finder Electronic Payment and LETS tools Anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-spyware/adware utilities -- e.g. SpyBot anti-spyware What are your essential links and invaluable free downloads?

CFO, scammer?

CFO, scammer? 06/17/2004 06:34 AM
USA Today Jun 17 2004 10:53AM GMT

Tracking Down A 419 Scammer

Tracking Down A 419 Scammer 11/06/2003 06:12 PM
There are a ton of folks who, when bored, have decided to mess with 419 Nigerian email scammers. They respond to one of the spams at random, and then either write up an article or an amusing webpage about the experience. That was interesting the first few times, but recently it's had a "been there, done that" feel to it. Now, a woman in Connecticut has gone one step further. Instead of just emailing with one of these scammers, she helped to get one arrested. Good for her. Maybe others will start doing the same thing, and it will help cut down on all those 419 scams. Of course, there are some risks involved, since Nigerian scammers are criminals and have been known to harm or even kill people. So, while it may sound like fun, it's probably not worth doing in all cases.

P-P-P-Powerbook for a S-S-S-Scammer...

P-P-P-Powerbook for a S-S-S-Scammer... 05/16/2004 10:41 AM

419 Scammer Gets Scammed

419 Scammer Gets Scammed 07/13/2004 01:48 PM

P-P-P-Powerbook for a S-S-S-Scammer

P-P-P-Powerbook for a S-S-S-Scammer 05/16/2004 12:00 PM
Slashdot May 16 2004 3:25PM GMT

Scamming the Scammer

Scamming the Scammer 05/15/2004 02:52 AM
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"I fought the scammer... and I won"

"I fought the scammer... and I won" 04/09/2004 09:09 PM

EBay scammer jailed

EBay scammer jailed 06/16/2004 08:20 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 16 2004 12:18PM GMT

Aus email scammer 'made A$5m'

Aus email scammer 'made A$5m' 10/31/2003 06:05 AM
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Scammers Setting Up Do Not Email Lists To Give To Spammers

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