People are More Accepting of Spam

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Survey: Users More Accepting of Spam

Survey: Users More Accepting of Spam 04/11/2005 10:47 AM
A new survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project suggests that people may be getting used to dealing with spam in their inboxes these days. Spam is also being cited as a cause for a marked decline in the number of people who trust that what comes into their inbox is genuine e-mail.

Internet Users More Accepting of Spam
(AP)

Internet Users More Accepting of Spam
(AP) 04/10/2005 05:37 PM
AP - We're not any less annoyed by spam. We're just more accepting of it. So says a study released Sunday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Internet users more accepting of spam

Internet users more accepting of spam 04/10/2005 09:52 PM
MSNBC Apr 11 2005 12:27AM GMT

Internet users more accepting of spam:
study

Internet users more accepting of spam:
study 04/11/2005 01:56 PM
CTV.ca Apr 11 2005 5:22PM GMT

Update 2: Internet Users More Accepting
of Spam

Update 2: Internet Users More Accepting
of Spam 04/10/2005 11:42 PM
Forbes Apr 11 2005 2:52AM GMT

First Four People Charged Under CAN-SPAM
Act

First Four People Charged Under CAN-SPAM
Act 04/29/2004 09:20 AM

People Are Still Spam Suckers

People Are Still Spam Suckers 03/23/2005 04:41 PM
If no one paid any attention to spam, it would go away. So, the fact that we still get inundated every day suggests that enough people continue to respond to spam. While not everyone is buying from spam, a new report suggests too many people still click on links within spam, which usually have tracking tags, indicating that you're a live sucker who actually pays attention to spam.

The People Who Respond To Spam

The People Who Respond To Spam 07/27/2004 02:51 PM
It's been pointed out over and over again that if no one ever bought from spam, there wouldn't be much of a need for it. However, the people keep buying and everyone else keeps suffering. Back in March, we wrote about one of the first articles that ever tracked down someone who would admit (happily) to buying from spam, but he obviously wasn't the only one. Following a recent study suggesting that an awful lot of people buy from spam, USA Today has managed to track down a few of the people who keep spammers happy and keep the rest of us miserable. The list even includes a "computer book author," Robert Reinhardt, who says "spam can be useful," (if you're wondering, he appears to write books on Macromedia Flash) and a "computer consultant," Michael Breindel, who says he not only buys from spam, but uses it to promote his own business. From the look of his website, of course, this "computer consultant" hasn't yet figured out how to de-moronize his website for non-IE browsers, since it's full of non-ASCII characters that make the site look, well, almost like spam.

People Still Buying From Spam

People Still Buying From Spam 06/29/2004 02:15 PM
There have been similar studies in the past, but the numbers on this one are fairly disturbing. Despite the continued annoyance most people claim concerning spam, a new study suggests that 20% of Americans admit to buying products from spam. No wonder the damn stuff keeps increasing. There are plenty of suckers out there.

Study: People getting inured to the
taste of spam

Study: People getting inured to the
taste of spam 04/11/2005 03:26 PM
The Pew Internet and American Life Project turns up some surprising data about people's attitudes toward junk e-mail.

People Know The Difference Between Spam
And A Legitimate Newsletter

People Know The Difference Between Spam
And A Legitimate Newsletter 02/17/2004 02:30 PM
Despite the claims from some who say that email is dead for newsletters, most people have adjusted and are smart enough to recognize the difference between an email newsletter they signed up for and spam. The real issue is that newsletter recipients are a demanding bunch (as they should be!), and have a very "what have you done for me lately?" attitude. Thus, if a newsletter isn't serving their needs, they stop reading it. For many people, simply designating a newsletter as spam and letting the filter handle the rest is much easier than the unsubscribe process that many newsletters require you to go through. The collateral damage on this is that many spam filters that take user inputs in deciding what's spam, end up declaring legitimate newsletters as spam for other users, because some felt it lost its usefulness. In other words, it's not that people are getting confused and think that legitimate newsletters are spam. It's just that the newsletters stopped being useful and the spam filter provided an easier "unsubscribe" process.

Have People Lost A Fighting Spirit
Against Spam Or Is Pew Faking The Data
Again?

Have People Lost A Fighting Spirit
Against Spam Or Is Pew Faking The Data
Again? 04/11/2005 05:58 AM
According to the folks at Pew (who are suffering from a credi bility hit these days), people are growing accustomed to spam. It still annoys people to no end, but it's just become so common that people have given up thinking about it or fighting against it, and just think of it as an annoying fact of life, like traffic. Of course, it's not really clear that the data actually says this. Basically, this conclusion appears to be driven by two stats: (1) people trust email less but (2) they're not reading less email -- sort of. The study actually says 22% of people say they are spending less time on email because of spam, which is down from 29% the year before. However, it's a bit of a stretch to conclude from this one data point that people are resigned to spam. It could mean that email simply has become more important in other aspects. Or, it could mean that most of the people who were really annoyed by spam decreased their email usage last year instead of this year. The problem with the data is that you can't really compare the rate of change this year to last year, because (obviously) they're starting from a different position. Most importantly, this could just be an indication that spam filters have become more effective. It wouldn't be surprising to find out that many people have become resigned to spam -- but the data shown here doesn't actually seem to prove that at all.

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP) 05/12/2004 04:17 AM
AFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs Internet traffic worldwide.

"Accepting Feed Requests"

"Accepting Feed Requests" 07/07/2004 11:02 PM

SiK accepting pre-orders for new iPod
accessories

SiK accepting pre-orders for new iPod
accessories 12/08/2003 05:50 AM
SiK today announced that it is accepting pre-orders for imp and FireJuice for iPods with a dock connector...

More Online Retailers Accepting Checks
(AP)

More Online Retailers Accepting Checks
(AP) 07/04/2004 02:09 PM
AP - Online retailers are trying to bring in new customers by allowing them to pay for goods with some old-fashioned methods — checks and invoicing.

More Online Retailers Accepting Checks

More Online Retailers Accepting Checks 07/04/2004 03:31 PM
AP via Newsday Jul 4 2004 7:01PM GMT

Google accepting video submissions

Google accepting video submissions 04/14/2005 10:40 AM
Google has launched a program allowing users to upload personal video clips to the Google Video service. On Monday, the company announced its plans to put out a call for video clips as a way to experiment with ways to expand the reach of its search service. "In the next few days, we're actually going to start taking video submissions from people, and we're not quite sure what we're going to get, but we decided we'd try this experiment," Google co-founder Larry Page said at a conference in San Francisco on Monday. Google is accepting digital video files of any length and size. Pending Google's approval process, the service will allow others to search, preview, purchase and play uploaded videos. Google Video is still in beta phase.

Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands

Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands 02/10/2004 09:18 AM
CNN.com - Passengers: Pilot promotes faith on flight .. Pilot's proselytizing scares passengers .. FLYING THE PLANES!!!!

cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/02/09/airline.christianity/index.html
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Ernst & Young Barred From Accepting New
Clients

Ernst & Young Barred From Accepting New
Clients 04/16/2004 09:06 PM
A judge suspended Big 4 accounting firm Ernst & Young today from accepting new, S.E.C.-registered audit clients for six months in a case involving software group PeopleSoft.

CNN.com - Aid groups accepting donations
for victims - Dec 27, 2004

CNN.com - Aid groups accepting donations
for victims - Dec 27, 2004 12/29/2004 11:34 AM

CNN.com - Aid groups accepting donations
for victims - Dec 28, 2004

CNN.com - Aid groups accepting donations
for victims - Dec 28, 2004 12/28/2004 09:15 PM
CNN lists some of the most effective charities .. Just give a few dollars .. list

cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/quake.aidsites/index.html
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CNN.com - Aid groups accepting donations
for victims - Dec 30, 2004

CNN.com - Aid groups accepting donations
for victims - Dec 30, 2004 12/31/2004 06:44 AM
List of More Aid Groups 12/30 .. CNN: Tsunami Aid Sites

cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/tsunami.aidsites
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Bee Docs' Timeline - Accepting Beta
Testers

Bee Docs' Timeline - Accepting Beta
Testers 01/05/2005 10:30 PM
Bee Documents is now accepting beta testers for its Bee Docs' Timeline software for Mac OS X. More information and a form to sign up for release notifications is available at www.beedocuments.com/timeline.html

[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to delve deeper.]

Google stops accepting ads from
unlicensed pharmacies

Google stops accepting ads from
unlicensed pharmacies 12/02/2003 01:47 AM
AP via New Jersey Online Dec 2 2003 0:32AM ET

stop accepting advertising from
unlicensed pharmacies

stop accepting advertising from
unlicensed pharmacies 12/02/2003 07:39 AM
Google to limit some drug ads

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23588-2003Nov30.html
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Kerry May Delay Accepting Democratic
Nomination

Kerry May Delay Accepting Democratic
Nomination 05/21/2004 08:24 PM
Senator John Kerry would gain time to raise private contributions and lessen President Bush's financial advantage.

Kerry may delay accepting official
nomination

Kerry may delay accepting official
nomination 05/21/2004 05:34 PM

Hanspring accepting T-Mobile Treo 600
pre-orders

Hanspring accepting T-Mobile Treo 600
pre-orders 02/10/2004 02:52 PM
After a long, inexplicable five month delay, Handspring finally started accepting pre-orders today for the T-Mobile version of the Treo 600. Read...

Google Sitemaps Now Accepting Web Page
Feeds

Google Sitemaps Now Accepting Web Page
Feeds 06/05/2005 11:58 PM

Now accepting new soldiers for Internet
crime ring

Now accepting new soldiers for Internet
crime ring 12/17/2003 11:52 PM
Unwitting online job seekers may find their new employer the leader of a worldwide internet crime ring.

LPI accepting tasks for Lvl 3 Linux
Security exams

LPI accepting tasks for Lvl 3 Linux
Security exams 01/22/2004 04:50 AM

"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"

"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions" 04/06/2005 03:07 AM

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up 05/24/2004 05:37 PM
The latest study on spam trends appears to show that financial spam is outpacing pharmaceutical spam - though, honestly, so much of both is coming out that it's really hard to imagine that this matters at all. Meanwhile, it seems that porn spam is increasingly less interesting to spammers as the numbers have been on a noticeable decline for quite some time. No matter what, though, it appears that CAN-SPAM has done absolutely nothing to slow down the amount of spam sent.

Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein?

Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein? 12/22/2003 07:54 AM
Well, the cat is out of the bag so to speak. Saddam Hussein was captured by Kurds, not US forces. 12/22 .. (even more) .. more

correspondences.org/archives/000507.html
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Apple accepting applications for WWDC
Student Scholarship

Apple accepting applications for WWDC
Student Scholarship 03/19/2005 03:14 AM
Apple is now accepting applications for the Worldwide Developer Student Scholarship Program. In order to be eligible for the scholarship, you must be an Apple Developer Connection Student member. According to Apple, scholarship recipients will have full access to WWDC sessions and events, as well as exclusive student activities. The scholarship application deadline is March 25, 2005.

Kerry May Delay Accepting Democratic
Nomination (Reuters)

Kerry May Delay Accepting Democratic
Nomination (Reuters) 05/21/2004 02:31 PM
Reuters - White House hopeful John Kerry may delay his formal acceptance of the Democratic presidential nomination, enabling him to continue to spend freely for an extra five weeks, a campaign aide said on Friday.

Futurismic bl0g starts accepting fiction
submissions

Futurismic bl0g starts accepting fiction
submissions 01/03/2004 04:52 AM
Futurismic, a terrific group-blog run by sf writers, has decided to begin publishing fiction online, paying a nominal-but-respectable $100 per story. I love this idea, if for no other reason than it will give a bunch of writers an opportunity to read "slush" (unsolicited manuscripts), something that really helped me learn what mistakes new writers make and how to avoid them. Some other stuff I like: in an era when most magazines still insist on paper submissions, they're only reading via the Web, and insisting on ASCII, pasted into a form, for submissions. ASCII is the new PDF!

Stories should be compelling and well written, with a strong emphasis on characters confronting or embracing imminent cultural, social, technological, and scienctific changes. Post-cyberpunk, Information Age, and near-future extrapolations will be welcomed--serious or satirical, straight-forward or gonzo, optimistic or pessimistic. We are not interested in fantasy, horror, or more conventional SF themes such as space opera, time travel, first contact, or alternate worlds.,,

Our reading period for the first half of our publishing year will begin on January 3, 2004 and end on February 3, 2004. Any manuscripts sent before or after these dates will be deleted unread. Because of the short timeframe, you may send two stories during this reading period, but please do so in separate submissions. We'll begin to respond some time in mid-February, and hope to respond to all submissions within three months of the reading period's closing. At this time we're only planning to publish one story per month, so only six stories will be accepted during each reading period. (The second reading period of the year should occur in July 2004.)

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Apple accepting submissions for tenth
annual Design Awards

Apple accepting submissions for tenth
annual Design Awards 04/05/2005 11:50 AM
Apple is accepting submissions for the tenth annual Apple Design Awards. The annual event takes place at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) held this June in San Francisco. To celebrate the tenth anniversary, this year's awards "will boast the biggest prize packages ever and winners will be announced—and winning products showcased—in a special ceremony at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2005." Categories for this year's awards include Best Product New to Mac OS X, Best Mac OS X User Experience, Best Mac OS X Entertainment Product, Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution, Best Mac OS X Server Solution, Best Use of Open Source, Best Mac OS X Student Product, and the new Best Use of Mac OS X Tiger Technologies award. Submissions are being accepted through May 13, 2005, and winners for each category will receive a 17-inch PowerBook G4, a Dual 2.5 GHz Power Mac G5, an Apple 30-inch Cinema HD Display, an ADC Premier membership, and a Macworld 2006 marketing package.
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