Jeffrey Alan Melton:  "For the good of mankind, we must stop ordering stupid drinks." 

When Spam Policing Gets Out of Control.  Legitimate ISPs, Web hosts and online businesses are often the victims of anti-spam vigilantes who shut down entire IP blocks of addresses.  [internetnews.com: Top News]

For weeks now, AOL has been spamming its latest AOL 7 to the customers of other ISPs around the U.S. through mass-mailers Focalex.com, freebiebank.com and shopathome.com, to the tune of one e-mail per customer every three minutes.

So - if blacklisting AOL would be unfair to its 34 million email users, perhaps the answer is tough legislation that would impose fines substantial enough to discourage big companies like AOL from spamming the universe whenever they feel like it.  In the absence of legislation, if the blacklists should hurt a big company's customers, who's really to blame other than the offending big company?  Hmm?  

Coca-Cola reselling old soda in poorer neighborhoods:  "Several employees of Coca-Cola Co. have accused the soft drink maker of repackaging nearly out-of-date soda cans and bottles and then reselling them at stores in minority neighborhoods."  [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]

Unbubbleable... 

Stanford Researchers Establish Link Between Creative Genius And Mental Illness.  [MyFreePress.com]

Might I point out that the findings are based only on preliminary data.  Now pass the Prozac, turkey! 

Update:
Cherry convicted of '63 bombing.  Ex-Klansman gets life for blast at Ala. church that killed four black girls  [SunSpot.net News Headlines] 

Ex-Klansman convicted in '63 bombing.  Blast at Alabama church killed 4 black girls  [SunSpot.net News Headlines]

For years, it looked like none of the bombing suspects would be brought to court. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover concluded in 1965 that Birmingham's racial climate meant a guilty verdict was highly unlikely, and the government closed the case in 1968 without any charges.

A few others were convicted in 1977, but then it took almost 2 more decades before the government "reopened the case in 1995 at the urging of black ministers troubled by the lack of prosecution in the girls' deaths." 

A Fool for a Client.  "It's clear that this guy isn't the sharpest tool in the shed."  [MyFreePress.com] 

Thanks for the mention Alwin... 

May 2002

 


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