People Know The Difference Between Spam And A Legitimate Newsletter

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Spam fighting hurts legitimate business?

Spam fighting hurts legitimate business? 04/09/2004 04:10 PM

1, 2, 10, 40, 100, 200, 999 Million
People whats the difference

1, 2, 10, 40, 100, 200, 999 Million
People whats the difference 06/22/2005 02:12 AM

The number to pay attention to is 40 Million why is that important because thats the number of Credit Cards a hacker may have stolen. Yes 40 Million.

I am not surprised and I expect that before long we will be able to visit a website and enter our social security number or our credit card number to just find out if we need to live in fear that our entire world is about to be turned upside down.

I am not sure about you but I think companies should be fined a HUGE outrageous amount of money every time they expose our personal information to the world. That money should be divided equally and given to the people who's data was stolen. Time for someone mainly Congress to get very tough and put down some legislation that has some teeth.

While we are at it scrap all of our SSN numbers and come up with something that can be protected. Better yet lets put a credit alert on every citizen in this country for the next 12 months so that they can raise awareness and get a handle on all of these breaches [BBC]

Spam belt tightening done badly rejects
legitimate mail

Spam belt tightening done badly rejects
legitimate mail 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
Wanadoo, the French ISP, recently volunteered its entire dial-up IP range to the SMTP blacklists: BTOpenworld, a leading UK ISP, followed suit last week. Yahoo is touting their own proprietary extensions to SMTP; BT recently managed to mess up the DNS configuration of post.btinternet.com, resulting in them getting RBL'd. If several Small - and major - ISPs cannot configure their servers correctly such that mail can get through, what hope is there?

Offer something in your email newsletter
that people would actually want to read

Offer something in your email newsletter
that people would actually want to read 03/27/2005 05:00 AM
Best thing of Seth Godin's .. the rest of the piece

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Press Release, Spam, What's The
Difference?

Press Release, Spam, What's The
Difference? 07/29/2004 03:32 PM
It's amazing the level of stupidity to which PR people will sink. Just two weeks after we wrote about idioti c PR people submitting press releases to us when we clearly ask them not to, one company has sunk to a new low -- and it's making me wonder if PR pitches are officially spam under the law. First, instead of using the submission function, this PR spammer tracked down my email address. Not hard to do, but if you want anyone here to write about something, it makes our life much better to use the submission page. That's why we have it. If you're going to make our lives more difficult, why would we ever bother to make yours better by giving you free publicity? If you can't take the time to actually read the site and understand the process, why should we take the time to hype up your fake news? However, instead of just sending the usual note that PR people tend to do, this individual sent us FOUR press releases in a row, all using CAPITAL LETTERS and all marked URGENT. I honestly thought it was traditional spam at first, as I would any time I received four emails in a row written in capital letters from someone I didn't know. However, it's clearly been sent to us for posting purposes. The company in question (who I won't bother to name) has been mocked on certain other sites for its ability to take whitebox laptops mark up the price to ridiculous levels and then promote it as their own (you figure it out). None of the announcements are even remotely interesting to our audience, and anyone who had read Techdirt for more than a day would know not to bother submitting them. It's no surprise, of course, that this guy clearly does not read the site. However, when I looked closer at the emails in question, I think I could make a very convincing case that they are, indeed, spam as defined by the law. First, the message does not include, as required, the address of the company sending the PR spam. Second, the "from" line includes a name, but no email address. The guy didn't spoof a different email address, but somehow fudged the headers so that there's no email address in the from or reply-to fields. There is no option to opt-out. In fact, it's not easy to email them back to ask to opt-out because there's no reply-to email address. So, beyond just being entirely moronic, is this company guilty of spamming?

Orkut Newsletter Spam?

Orkut Newsletter Spam? 05/25/2004 02:21 AM
Well, it seems that Orkut is now sending out a newsletter to members. Mine looks something like this: Hey Jeremy, You have 162 friends: - 145 friends - 5 acquaintances - 12 haven't met New members in your network since May 16th: - 2 new friends - 33 new friends of friends - 2490 new friends of friends of friends Friends of friends you might be interested in meeting: - Joi Ito http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=1405190888294923508 - Ask Bjørn Hansen http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=5207100656550035736 - Mitchell...

First Four People Charged Under CAN-SPAM
Act

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

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.

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.

People are More Accepting of Spam

People are More Accepting of Spam 04/11/2005 05:59 AM

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.

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.

The Legitimate Hacker

The Legitimate Hacker 08/05/2004 09:38 PM

Legitimate Businessmen only.

Legitimate Businessmen only. 12/26/2004 01:46 AM
Worried that the new guy might tip off the feds about your "concrete company?" The internet gives you the perfect research tool.

""says the memos are more than likely
legitimate""

""says the memos are more than likely
legitimate"" 06/22/2005 02:21 AM

"or any other legitimate issue."

"or any other legitimate issue." 11/18/2003 03:20 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

Citizens for Legitimate Government 09/24/2004 05:37 PM
baseless story with no merit .. Source

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When Even Legitimate Emails Are
Overwhelming

When Even Legitimate Emails Are
Overwhelming 06/07/2004 10:25 AM
There have been plenty of stories about the so-called (and greatly exaggerated) "death of email." Almost all of these, however, are discussing the problems associated with spam. Professor Lawrence Lessig is discovering a different kind of problem. As he's become something of a net.celebrity he's started receiving so much personal email that he can no longer effectively respond to it all. He even sent out a note telling people he hasn't responded to that he's given up and will not be responding to their email - though, he's quite sorry about it. Still, as some people in the article point out, no one says he needs to respond to every email he receives. If someone is emailing him who does not know him, he shouldn't necessarily feel obligated to respond to each and every message. In some sense, this does raise the question about the definition of "spam" again. If spam is "anythi ng I don't like," is getting to much personal email spam as well?

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.

U.S.: Iraq wedding attack was legitimate

U.S.: Iraq wedding attack was legitimate 06/30/2004 04:23 PM

Is Your MLM/Multilevel Marketing
Business Legitimate?

Is Your MLM/Multilevel Marketing
Business Legitimate? 05/11/2004 03:45 AM
WebDevInfo May 11 2004 6:51AM GMT

Is the mood changing towards the
legitimate use of P2P networks?

Is the mood changing towards the
legitimate use of P2P networks? 02/10/2004 02:48 AM
Analysis Smells like Teen Zeitgeist

Spammers using SMTP authentication
before most legitimate programs are!

Spammers using SMTP authentication
before most legitimate programs are! 09/01/2004 04:25 AM

I am not at all surprised that Spammers are using SMTP authentication before most of the legitimate mail movers are even out of the starting blocks. Only a few firms like Santronics Inc. which has one of the industries best anti spam mail servers is up to the task of being able to determine if the spammer that is running authentication is a legitimate service or not.

I am one of the very few people in the entire world that does not have to live with Spam thanks to Santronics.

There are a small handful of companies that understand spam and understand how to stop it, but the political infighting within the standards community has delayed what is essentially a final solution it irritates me to no end. It's a political quagmire that I hope gets sorted out soon. [Techdirt]

More Legitimate Uses Of File Sharing
Networks: Course Materials

More Legitimate Uses Of File Sharing
Networks: Course Materials 11/12/2003 01:33 PM
And, now, we have yet another example of how file sharing networks can be used for perfectly legitimate reasons. The famous Berklee College of Music is now offering 80 different lessons as audio or video files on file sharing networks. They're encouraging anyone to download them, under a Creative Commons license. They point out that this was the most efficient way to get that information out there. While some people still insist that offering stuff for free undermines the content owners' ability to make money, Berklee realizes that this actually enhances their reputation while getting more information out there - both of which are strong positives. The article includes a quote from the RIAA which misses the point, saying that they don't mind if people share their own content on file sharing networks. That may be true, but that's not the message they're bringing to politicians or the courts, where they're actively trying to shut down file sharing networks and insisting that their cannot be substantial non-infringing uses of such networks.

Comment Spammer adding legitimate sites

Comment Spammer adding legitimate sites 07/07/2004 04:07 PM

Be very carefully when blacklisting entries from comment spammers do not remove and ban in bulk as they are adding legitimate site in amongst their filth. [Dan Gillmor]

More Stupid Copy Protection That Does
Nothing But Piss Off Legitimate Users

More Stupid Copy Protection That Does
Nothing But Piss Off Legitimate Users 07/12/2004 05:44 PM
This certainly isn't a new or unique story, but Broadband Reports has yet another story about ridiculous and pointless copy protection. The copy protection scheme, called Starforce, appears to be mainly used for protecting certain PC games from being copied. Of course, like so many copy protection schemes it does this by assuming all legitimate customers are criminals. Not only that, but it installs itself without letting you know (not even in the EULA), hides itself on your PC, slows down the PC, causes all sorts of other problems and errors, and is nearly impossible to remove -- even after the protected application has been removed. In other words, it's just as bad as some adware/spyware out there -- except that it's screwing things up for legitimate customers who actually went out and bought the games in question. As the article points out, every one of those games is available in a cracked version online, so this "copy protection" scheme doesn't actually prevent copies. It only serves to anger legitimate customers. Why is anyone using this product on their software?

ACLU: Anti-porn Law Blocks Legitimate
Web Sites

ACLU: Anti-porn Law Blocks Legitimate
Web Sites 01/07/2004 07:11 PM
NewsMax.com Jan 7 2004 5:53PM ET

Blacklisted Comment Spammers Attack
Legitimate Domain

Blacklisted Comment Spammers Attack
Legitimate Domain 07/07/2004 02:28 PM
UPDATED It appears that the comment spammers may be polluting new postings with legitimate domains -- including this one -- in order to cause trouble for people who are running programs to cut down on comment spam. In this case, they put weblog.siliconvalley.com and mercurynews.com URLs into spams containing their porn and casino links (or whatever it was the anti-spam program had already flagged), and the comment blacklist software picked our URLs up and offered to ban them. We missed this, and the result was that I couldn't post comments here briefly, and some of my old comments got erased in the meantime. I'm betting this is going on widely -- and that the spammers are hoping to cause such disruption with MT Blacklist, which we're using, and other such programs as to force us to stop using them. I'd rather shut the comments down entirely than see these slimeballs get away with this. For now we're watching our banned-domain list more carefully. (We just discovered that washingtonpost.com, cnn.com and abcnews.go.com, among other news sites, also made it into our master list. They'll work now.) Let me know in an e-mail if your comment is rejected from a legitimate domain, and I'll ask our tech folks to take a look. The bad guys are indifferent to the damage they cause. Sorry it may be affecting some of you.

Demonstrating A Legitimate Use Of File
Sharing For Microsoft's Update?

Demonstrating A Legitimate Use Of File
Sharing For Microsoft's Update? 08/10/2004 03:43 PM
The BBC is reporting on Downhill Battle's move to offer the new Microsoft Windows XP update via BitTorrent as a way of showing how distributed file sharing applications can be used for legitimate, non-infringing purposes (though, the article hints that Microsoft isn't particularly thrilled about this). Of course, anyone who understands how BitTorrent works knows that there are already plenty of examples of non-infringing uses of BitTorrent. At this point, unfortunately, this demo may only serve to show how immature BitTorrent actually is. While the concept is great, the implementation still needs quite a bit of work.

Treat online gaming as a legitimate
industry, gov't told

Treat online gaming as a legitimate
industry, gov't told 02/01/2005 09:41 PM
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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!!!!

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"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

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"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..."

"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..." 12/22/2003 04:17 PM

There are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people

There are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people 08/27/2004 01:47 PM

Congrats to Roland and Boris and.....

They've just launched Bryght - a Drupal hosting service. I hung out with these guys a bit when I was in Vancouver and they're certainly a compelling reason for moving there.

Vancouver is hot.

Here's Roland's post....

Our latest venture is Bryght, a hosted Drupal service, "the Salesforce.com of community content". I am working with Boris, Richard, Adrian and James on this one. Yes, we are all Bryght guys :-) !

We have taken Drupal and combined it with web hosting and email to give you a one stop shop for your community content. No IT required, no muss, no fuss! Check out The lights are on at Bryght for more background on how this started. And if you know of an individual, organization or company that could use a Bryght site, please contact us.

Whither StreamLine you might ask? StreamLine continues and it will continue to resell Blogware blogs because we still believe that Blogware is the best individual blogging platform.

[Roland Tanglao's blog]

What's The Difference Between DRM And A
Virus?

What's The Difference Between DRM And A
Virus? 06/23/2004 11:06 AM
Over the past few days a number of sites have commented on the fact that the new Beastie Boy album comes with copy protection (though, apparently not in the US or the UK, according to some). While this set off the usual argumen ts about why DRM is bad, The Register has rewritten the story as if t he DRM is a virus or similar malware. They may have a point. The DRM is silently installed without alerting the user as soon as they put the CD into their computer. It prevents their computer from functioning the way it was designed to. In fact, the article suggests the fact that it's installed without asking the end user or getting permission may constitute a crime. I'm not entirely sure, but I think the CDs do note on the case that they come with copy protection, so it is possible that sticker could be considered "letting the user know." Still, this does raise some important questions about DRM and whether or not it will violate any anti-spyware law that's being discussed, since most of them focus on the fact that they're installed without explicit permission.

Making a Difference

Making a Difference 01/01/2005 06:54 PM
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