Well, it sure looks this way to me.
For instance,
the bill now includes a provision, supported by some opponents of spam, that directs the Federal Trade Commission to come up with a plan for a no-spam registry.
I think the off shore spammers will love this one: a list comprised of mostly good email addresses! Yea, I know that the spammers are supposed to send in their lists for scrubbing but I suspect joes p*rn shop won’t be sending in their list.
I couldn’t disagree more with this guy:
Russ Cooper, a security expert with TruSecure Corp., said anyone who needs the Windows messaging function that AOL disabled ought to be smart enough to know how to reactivate it.
“I hope more and more providers do this type of proactive security,” he said, “and that we don’t condemn them for things we wish everybody would do for themselves.”
He is talking about AOL which has made changes to the system settings of more then 15,000,000 of their user’s Microsoft Window based systems without those users prior consent.
Thudfactor is just thrilled with MCI’s telemarketers.
This is a good example why it should be made easy for us to take these folks to court and collect damages. And it is a good example why you should be able to call your local police, complain about harassment and trespassing, and have them actually do something about it.
A Do Not Call List should not be required.
Jaquandor is annoyed by what may be a new type of spam:
It works like this: a person leaves a one-word entry in a blog’s Comments section, something like “Cool!” or “Neat!”, but the URL they enter for their homepage is not their own blog but instead where you’d go if you click any of the links in the e-mail Spam messages that clog your inbox. It’s a pretty sneaky way to guarantee I’ll look, since I wager most bloggers — except the really big ones — tend to check out those URLs when a unknown person leaves a comment.
This looks too labor intensive for the folks who like to send out millions of messages at a time but, then, I here there is some pretty cheap offshore labor.
Note: possible bloggered permalinks. Link is to the 3rd entry from the bottom on August 10 at Byzantium Shores.