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MickC @ January 27, 2006 # One Comment
John Gilmore, of course, is best known to me as somewhat of a crackpot for insisting that it is his God-given Constitutitional right to force me to accept any mail he cares to send through his intentionally open relay mail server. Apparently his “my server, my rules, your server, my rules” attitude didn’t fly [...]
MickC @ January 27, 2006 # No Comment Yet
In other news on the legal front, C|Net News.com reports that the Feds have arrested an alleged Internet ID thief.
According to the charges, Jeffrey Brett Goodin of Azusa, Calif., used the fraudulently obtained information to make unauthorized charges using the credit and debit cards of his victims. He allegedly tricked his victims, all America Online [...]
MickC @ January 27, 2006 # One Comment
Just came across this news story.
Eric Menhart and a Frederick (MD)-based Internet service company sued Joseph Frevola and First Choice Internet, Inc., of New York, for $168,750 after receiving what they claimed were 83 spam emails. The suit was originally dismissed in the lower court when it ruled the statute it was based upon [...]
MickC @ January 24, 2006 # One Comment
It might be hard to appreciate a political humor columnist sometimes. They have a difficult job that has them trying to say something serious in a light, humor-laced way. Today, I found one such article that I thought I’d share with you.
In the cleverly titled essay “Warriors and wusses“, LA Times humor columnist [...]
MickC @ January 24, 2006 # 2 Comments
I do lots of reading during the day these days. I have a wonderful job that, unfortunately has quite a lot of backlog that has to be cleared out. Since I have to use a web interface to do it, and it seems the system likes it best if I try to only [...]
MickC @ January 23, 2006 # No Comment Yet
UPI is reporting that Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) is demanding an online porn rating system
Back when I worked the other side of the abuse desk, we had an internal motto: “We surf bad porn so you don’t have to!”
So, my guess is that Senator Stevens can’t figure out what makes good porn. Therefore, he [...]
MickC @ January 20, 2006 # One Comment
The Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood have announced that they fully intend to sue Nickelodeon and Kellogg for marketing junk food to kids. They have not actually filed suit yet, but they have announced their intent to sue Nickelodeon and Kellogg.
This lawsuit is nothing more [...]
MickC @ January 12, 2006 # 2 Comments
In the spirit of the Sir Denis Thatcher 419 scam, we have a new one seeking to reward my benevolent efforts with money beyond my wildest dreams.
The email is below the fold. And here are some things to note about it:
1. All typos were in the email
2. The Attn. field is left blank by [...]
MickC @ January 11, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Way back when we first moved our small home-based business to our own colo’d server, we set up a Mailman mailing list for announcements, COI and everything. When customers started complaining that our announcements were going to Yahoo’s Bulk folder, we contacted Yahoo through normal channels and got on their whitelist.
Fast forward several months. [...]
MickC @ January 9, 2006 # One Comment
With one line, the United States Supreme Court has shutdown White Buffalo Venture’s attempt to spam the students that the University of Texas at Austin.
This line was included on page 4 of the Monday, January 9, 2006, Order List under the heading of “Certiorari Denied”:
05-520 WHITE BUFFALO VENTURES, LLC V. UNIV. OF TX AT AUSTIN
The [...]
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