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DMA to Control Spam by DMA Members
SiliconLawyer writes: "The Direct Marketing Association, the major U.S. tradegroup for companies using direct marketing techniques, will reportedly issue guidelines for how its members may and may not use e-mail as a marketing tool. Hopefully, this will influence other marketers toward more responsible use of e-mail. Details are on CNET here."
anything named The Direct Marketing Association should be sent directly to /dev/null
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Won't this be a little like the wolf looking after the chickens?
"We are still going to spam, but we wil spam nicely."
Spam is Spam is Spam!
This has to be a hoax. Next thing I know you'll be posting a story about how Microsoft is going to "specialize in computer security".
Har de har har.
If you'd like more information, please send an e-mail to gullible@dma.org.
We promise this information will be kept private amongst are bajillion members and will not be shared with anyone else that doesn't politly ask.
Chaos, Mayhem, and Destruction: Not
Hmm...Direct Marketing Association...DMA. What exactly do they represent? Spammers, who uniformly sell crap. Thus, they could be the Direct Marketing (of) Crap Associat - thereby becoming the DMCA!
:)
Two evil entities, two similar acronyms. Coincidence? I think not.
But what does my opinion matter, I just vote here. It's not like I have any money or anything.
It's still not clear to me how Direct Memory Access is going to keep my inbox spam-free. I mean, will hard drive manufacturers stop the CPU-less transfer of data from C:\ or /mnt/hda1 if they detect such strings as "You've already won", "Free trial offer", or "Wet sex"?
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Two ideas for handling spammers, inspired by User Friendly:
1. Next time you get a "501 compliant spam" that starts off with something like "This is not unsolicited bulk e-mail. Buy me.", flood their server with messages stating "This is not a denial of service attack."
2. The following poem seems to work well:
I got your mail and wrote you back
just so that you'd have no doubt
that if you spam me ever again
your router shall cease to route
I can just see those guidelines now:
"You done taken a wrong turn."
-Bill McKinney, in Deliverance
What do you think that means?
"Enough of this wretched, whining monkey life." -- Marcus Aurelius, _Meditations_, Book 9, 37
I mean, my wife gets e-mails telling her to enlarge her penis and I get e-mail telling me to enlarge my breasts....
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
They only send me stuff I would want to see, I get it no more than maybe 1-2 times a week, and it often includes a $5 off coupon or something.
Most of my bad spam is for absolute random crap or porn, with the same old line on the bottom informing me that the reason I'm being informed about all these Internet Cum Sluts is because I specificly requested to be spamed on their site or one of their partner's sites.
Plus, the latest thing is dating the message 3-4 days back, so you have to scroll back on your inbox to read/erase the spam. It stops the instant deletes by hiding it.
Tell ya what. How about we form a cabal of system administrators with a chapter in every city to pay spammers a 'visit' for some 'wall to wall counseling' every time spammers send out a run.
Hells Administrators! or Hells Geeks!
Steve's Computer Service, Hobbs, NM