The Tapegerm Collective  [A Blander Blog] 

AOL blocks Messenger spam.  A change to the Internet giant's network takes the air out of pop-up spam, but at least one direct marketer may have a workaround in a few weeks.  [CNET News.com]

Response rates are high, said Anish Dhingra, president of Broadcast Marketer. Dhingra claims that the technique isn't spam, because affected users can simply turn off the Windows feature that allows the pop-up messages to appear.

Don't let the item's teaser fool you.  Anish Dhingra is not a "direct marketer."  He and his company are spammers, pure and simple.  They "send thousands to hundreds of thousands of such messages every hour to random Internet addresses" as if they are entitled to access users' computers as they damn please just because the user can "turn off the Windows feature..."  What if the user NEEDS that feature on for legitimate messages?  This gives a whole new meaning to "unsolicited," not to mention "invasion of privacy!" 

...sometimes it's a loose nut behind the wheel. 

BBC:  The spy inside your home computer 

Six approaches to eliminating unwanted e-mail (via BoingBoing)  [Werblog] 

Eric Tilton makes several excellent points about signs with ears... 

>>  ...what a nice surprise it was to find more new content, wrapped in a brand new [tasty] design early this morning... [Coolstop Daily Pick 11/25/02] 

I. Tu Geeky:  "While driving to work the other day listening to my streaming satellite radio and blogging on my handheld connected to the internet through a passing wLan I had a thought... Is it alright for an Amish person to weblog, if they use a Commodore64?" 

Dave Winer:  "I have a feeling that most of the spam I get comes from made-up people." 

The Register: Where the heck is all this spam coming from? 

November 2002

 


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