Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Ending Harassment from Microsoft and the BSA?

Posted by Cliff on from the talk-to-the-hand dept.

Big_Joe asks: "Lately Microsoft has put a satellite office in the Grand Rapids, MI area. Because of this I, an end user working for a large contractual company, have been getting harassment mail from Microsoft and the BSA. The information they are using to contact me is information from Chicago's Comdex 3 years ago. Since then I have switch my career direction from Windows to Linux. I would like to get my name removed from any association with Microsoft products. The only systems I use with any Microsoft software installed are owned and maintained by my employer. An earlier story here said not to reply because it is more of a headache. So how do I get them to quit bugging me? Is there any legal action I can take for harassment? How do I tell them that I am no longer a customer and that they have no further right to pester me?" Hmmm... smells like more spam. How should one handle any corporation that does crap like this, especially one that makes backhanded threats toward your workplace?

3 of 49 comments (clear)

  1. procmailrc? by tps12 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Can't you just filter out email from microsoft.com and bsa.org? Or are they like following you around with cameras and stuff?

    Actually, this whole "I changed my line of business" stuff sounds pretty shady to me. What exactly were you doing at Comdex that got them interested in you, anyway? Peddling warez, perchance?

    --

    Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
  2. NO!!! This is your big chance to mess with them. by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You DON'T want them to stop hassling you if you have an MS free office. Think of it as sucking valuble resources out of them!! I think you should request more information from them!! Think of the amusement you can have if they try to audit you!! The money you can make of suing them for harrasment.

    Plus it will distact them from me. ;)

    --
    All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
  3. distract them with other companies. by t · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Just start turning in companies all over the place, say you work there and know for a fact that they have pirated M$ software. Either they'll be too busy to mess with you or, if you really go ballistic, the entire city will backlash against them.

    t.