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tis be olde but soo goode.. A US bulk emailer is threatening legal action after so-called "anti-spammers" signed him up for lots of junk mail. Detroit Free Press tech columnist Mike Wendland reported last week that Alan Ralsky is now experiencing what it likes to be flooded with unwanted correspondence. Mr Ralsky has the capacity to send a billion emails a day and has made a fortune doing it. Now, he's receiving sacks of paper post, brochures, and catalogues [AOL CDs? Ed] after being signed up for all manner of junk mail - and he ain't happy. He told the DFP: "They've signed me up for every advertising campaign and mailing list there is. These people are out of their minds. They're harassing me." Some people have already pointed out the delicious irony in this situation made all the more sweeter because of Mr Ralsky's apparent distress. And who are the anti-spammers? The heroes of the hour hatched the plot on Slashdot, with spam haters posting Ralsky's address and "even an aerial view of his neighborhood". |
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hahahahahahaha fuck 'em |
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HA HA brilliant.. :) |
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sounds like something /.ers would do too :) |
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i also read about this company getting sued, because their ad "faked" a real virus warning. you've probably seen it: "your PC may be infested with viruses". |
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yeah I wanted to read that..heard it on the radio in the doctors office...you mayhap have a link? |
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here ya go: |
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hahahaha you know what, i want the tosers who think those ads were real to burn just as much as I want the wankers who create the popups to burn. I dunno who's dumber :) |
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"The suit seeks to enjoin Bonzi from sending such ads in the future. It also asks for punitive relief, including $500 to every person who was received a deceptive ad from the company, and for the company to pay $5 for every banner it has delivered with the warning messages" 734Million multiplied by $500 :o I dont have enough brain cells let alone fingers to count that.. |
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I don't want to get involved in any 'flame' war, but comments like that aren't needed. Simply because someone isn't as web/computer savvy as you doesn't make them deserving of your scorn. Clearly the people responsible for these pop-up ads are not stupid. They're taking advantage of those (many) people out there who are still not familiar enough with this technology to recognise spam. Taking advantage of the 'stupidity' (as you call it) of others. And while it's true that some of these poeple are thick as piggy-poo, that's only due to the law of averages, not all of them are. Out of any given cross section of the population you're bound to get people of a lower IQ than others. My dad is an intelligent man, but show him a mouse and hasn't the remotest idea what to do with it. |
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yeah it was pretty uncalled for, but I'm in a rather happy mood I did mean to offend, but not come as as a holyer than though approach, appologies if it seemed that way. --------------------------------------------- I still think common sense would remove most problems in our society, including this one. |
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True, though these spammers are getting more and more wiley, deliberately to catch those people who simply don't know any better - not cos of lack of common sense, but simply cos they're not aware of the methods of delivering spam or able to recognise it when it pops up in front of their spreadsheets or whatever. Anyway, aah didn't meeyan t'bring y'mood down y'all :) |
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yeah I thought it was a bit rough...especially if you have actually encountered one of those pop ups..some of the JavaScript alert ones dont go away until you click on them..they jam your machine.. |
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you didn't bring me down, school is out and my gf just called :) but yeah, my bad on the comment, it was pretty lame of me to spout off like that. |
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love your pic exceque - who si it? |
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