I got quoted in an article at Lockergnome. Cool.
Archive of posts filed under the Advertising category.
UnsubscribeNow.org spam?
It seems very odd to me to run a anti-spam service and advertise it via spam. And even odder still to not follow the very law that your site is supposed to help consumers with. (yes, I ended that sentence with a preposition.) Be careful of these kinds of services, opt-out through a third party […]
Removed MacMerc from my Feedreader
I just removed MacMerc from NetNewsWire, the program I use to read RSS (newsfeeds) from several dozen web sites a few times a day. MacMerc sometime recently started putting an advertising image at the bottom of each article. This has the same effect as a web bug (aka web beacon). Regardless, it’s quite annoying, so […]
Virus Warning Replies are Stupid
Great article: Anti-Virus Companies: Tenacious Spammers.
Wired News: Stop Trying to Persuade Us
A fascinating article by Wired News, Stop Trying to Persuade Us gives a quick glance at a PBS Frontline show, The Persuaders, airing tonight. It is also interesting to note that there are eight ads (4 images, 4 text) on the page of this article.
Idiot for Congress
Wow, I only just got my first piece of political candidate spam for this election cycle. It only had 166 email addresses listed in the To: field. And I only received four copies of this garbage. I guess I know who to vote for now: the OTHER candidate!
“Spam” in the Subject
It appears that at least one product is configured to not allow the word “spam” to be in the subject line of an email message. Nice, see CDT Policy Post 10.15: Spam Continues to Plague Industry and Users.
Stupid Filtering Regex
I recently sent an email referencing CDT and it’s Pennsylvania law suit, and in a bounced message I found a wonderful example of a bad regular expression to use in your blocking lists. Someone decided that any email message that has this pattern of letters in it should not be allowed to be delivered: pen?s. […]
Idiots at ???.org
Some loser at a non-profit organization (three-letters followed by dot org) decided to add one of my professional email addresses to their email list. This is called “spam.” They had an opt-out method included in the message. So I followed that process. And got an error message back from their mail server. so I fired […]
PromoAudit.com
A new spamhaus: Promoaudit.com. They’ve hit my web site seven times in the last week. Also mentioned in the spam is a company called “FreeSlide.com.” FreeSlide’s web site redirects to a URL at sbase30.com. Other spam I’ve received referencing FreeSlide (going back to March 11, 2004) included references to e-ticket-marketing.com, dealbrick.com, b2c-mail.com, listmx.com, Emsemail1.com, ggoody.com, […]