Fun new FUSSP
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If you didn’t already know it, FUSSP stands for “Final and Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem”. And now Mark Mumma, made famous in the Mummagraphics v. Omega World Travel, Inc. case, has reinvented the wheel with his new website: http://optout1.com/.
That’s right, kiddies, it’s a global, domain-wide opt out site! And yes, this really is Mark Mumma. The domain is done through his “webguy.com” site. Plus, the domain registration uses (webguydns@gmail.com) for the POC, despite the “proxy registration” designator. He also has a “terms” page which is, as of this writing, 404 compliant.
And apparently he’s contacting some senders and asking them to download his list once a month. For what reason? I thought we had been down this road before with such illuminaries as Wallace and Rines’ IEMMC and Rodney Joffe’s SafeEPS. Rodney at least had credibility on both sides of the fence.
Dude, we’ve been there and done that. It failed then. It will fail now. And really, man, once a month? That’s a joke, right?
[UPDATE: The "terms" page is no longer 404 compliant but instead contains a rant against this post. I encourage you to go read Mr. Mumma's take on things. About the only thing I'll cop to is not looking at the date when I checked whois. It's new enough that I hadn't heard of it before. That gets it marked as "new" in my book.]
MickC @ April 10, 2008