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1. Comment - Spamhaus Won't Pay Alleged Spammer

   (Sep 17, 2006 - 10:24 AM)

   Spiked you are right that it is a default judgement in this case. But since there are laws against spamming called the CAN SPAM Act this judge didn't want to follow the rules of that Act. This act is very dubious because i wrote constantly to Senator Allen (My Senator) on that committee about the problem with spam for several months. I told him I had track several companies that were spamming and not following the law. Granted several of those companies were overseas. One i tracked to the Netherlands that was owned by a Big Time Spammer in Brazil. I informed the government in the Netherlands of the spammer there and they reported back saying the Address this person was using in their country was bogus and that it was tracked back to the spammer in Brazil. They quickly closed down the Brazilian's website.
   
   I can only say that the decision by the judge only shows his total ignorance of what has taken over by these people. Advertisers are constantly looking for ways around spyware programs. They have their tv ads, newspapers, Radio, Banners and other means at their disposal but they want to really track the user so they can gather information on them as they say "To design something specific to the users so they can better serve the users" actually the company that is paying for their advertising services.
   
   We all are upset with the amount of Junk Mail we get in our Snail Mail box but i hate to tell you since i worked as a contractor to the USPS they are prepaid in Bulk Millions of dollars to send that junk mail and so the USPS has no choice but to deliver that mail.
   
   I just recnetly forced Earthlink to remove ads from my startup page because they were using a KNOWN spyware advertiser who was then going to be sending spam because of the advertiser's use of cookies to see what the users were doing. I have blocked many advertising firms from any access to my systems because of the CAN SPAM Act tactics that they are employing now to get around the antispyware/adware programs out there .
   
   If you must know i worked for the very first spammer of the Internet. The company was called Digital Equipment Corporation and when so idiot took the email listing of Systems Managers world wide and sent them spam. The outcome of that spam was a disasterous for Digital and sales worldwide dropped. These people didn't have time to read an email about new equipment when they were constantly looking for bugs and hardware fixes to any condition that would showup.
   
   The only way you and i can stop such things is to tell the company using that advertising company that you will tell all not to buy their products because they are condoning spam and spyware to monitor users. This will stop these spammers or to get people together with a good lawyer to sue these people.
   
   Now i am an Earthlink user and i have caught Earthlink sales doing the same thing as the Digital Sales person did above even to the fact that they disregarded their own Policy Statment and the page where i checked off from recieving such garbage. When it comes down to Money these people will disregard Written Policies in order to get sales up.

2. Comment - Spamhaus Won't Pay Alleged Spammer

   (Sep 16, 2006 - 11:58 AM)

   Well as someone that has been put on a blacklisting because they reported to the Fast Colocation Abuse Department for their constantly having people using their equipment to send those UDP Scams to another SBL listing group. I then started to inform all the government legal arms to be informed of the tactic that was being used by companies that allow these scams to sent from. In several cases i investigated Fast COlocation actually help the spammer to change their IP address of their website. Now It took toogh tactics but the Virginia's and the Feds to stop the practice of sending in abuse reports to companies like these. When i send out such report i constantly get blacklisted by those web hosting groups in CHina and Brazil. So when these companies are Making far more than they are report or they wouldn't change the advertised companies IP when they are found.
   Oh the SBL group as far as i am concerned was blackmailing people to pay $50 to the charity of their choice. For an Individual fighting these spammers of all types is rediculous. The companies i went after are those listed on the Internet Storm Center Top 10 listing and you can see that those change every five minutes but they would port attack me nearly every hour. THey still send their scams but now only a few at a time that doesn't make my Firewall scream about constant attacks.

3. Comment - Coalition Posts Spyware Risk Guidelines

   (Oct 28, 2005 - 1:40 PM)

   Well let me just say that i do agree with rijp has stated.
   
   It is well documented that adware is spyware when these companies want to see where you got so they can blast you with ads on those website you go to if they are not there.
   
   In fact this is the reason i stay with Lavasoft product only because they created that committee and they are the ones that saw it being taken over by the marketing and ad agencies and being told to accept certain ads because they were members to that committee. When Lavasoft left that committee it made all those companies on their list of and that was several years ago.
   
   I have looked at the McAfee and Symantec versions of antispyware program and they leave so many holes that it is as useless as something on a bull.
   
   I being an earthlink user have issues with them as they are operating like AOL in there need to display ads on their sites. Of course they support the use of Symantec products and I have seent the factor of ads increase on them so much that I am glad I never use their products.
   
   Everyone understands the idea of advertising but the concept of allowing even cookies to Betanews is no different in this respect becasue they too are monitoring you to display ads.
   
   Thank God for Firefox and Adblock and RIP extensions Spybot and Ad-aware and blocking many of the marketing and ad agency in my firewall it takes longer but then they don't get on the machine nor are they allowed to contact their website. I am looking onto the Host file to stop them even further.
   
   This has nothing to do with politics but money. When a company wants to advertise the advertising company now forces them to exclude them from any antispyware programs or they have to pay a much higher price for their service.
   
   I have been doing my best to teach my relatives , friends and my fellow computers friends of nearly 30 years on this.