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Spam King Living High in the Bayou
mikey573 writes "Connecticut's main newspaper, The Hartford Courant, decided to bring the issue of spam to the forefront with a top headline front page story Spam King Living High In The Bayou in its Sunday print edition. The article goes into describing the spam marketing company "Opt-In Marketing Services". The article goes too much into glorifying one person's success with spam, while failing to underscore the potential problems he has caused for others."
Did everyone see how Moby is responding people who chose to send him criticism of his work and/or negative views of the internet fanbase? By subscribing them automatically to his mailing list.
Glad he believes in opt-in. I wonder how long until some takes advantage of this to harass people with Moby newsletters.
Someone else has done their homework on Scelson there is a bunch of info, including tel #s and addresses
here.
His interview makes him seem like an utter chump. Make him pay...
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He seems to missing a fundamental point: You do not have a Constitutional right to an internet connection. You cannot (or should not be able to) force a company to do business with you if they don't want to. If Qwest sees that they are losing customers because they provide internet access to you, they have a fiduciary duty to terminate their business relationship with you. I think I'll start buying stock in telecoms and ISP's just for the purpose of filing shareholder lawsuits against companies that cave in to spammers like this. Breach of fiduciary duty is extremely serious to large companies, and you can sue individual CEOs/board members/etc as well as the company. He wants to use the courts to force companies to provide services, the shareholders have a right to use the courts to make sure the companies DON'T provide those services to him.
this is getting old and so are you
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He's right - it isn't. But it damn well should be.
If ever there was a sentence that motivates you to support anti-spamming groups, the spammer's words above should be it.
If I didn't ask for it I don't want it.
I joined up just now. You?
HTH. HAND.
perhaps one of these? Razor DCC
Actually, Cloudmark is the company created by one of Napster's founders and it takes advantage of Razor, the software mentioned in other replies to this post. The link is here and they're actually doing pretty well at sorting my spam for me. Unfortunately, they only work with Microsoft Outlook right now. But it's a start.
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First the article although informative was a little uninformed and written withmucho journalistic license.
Slidell is drained swampland. Not know in Louisiana for its bayous. Bayou towns are a little more south and west of new orleans and run along Highway 90. There is nary a cajun in those parts. Unless they are transplants.
Slidell is where you go to live when you can get outta the double wide. It is a white trash suburb(pardon if youlive there but it is not one of the nicest places in Louisiana. Reclaimed swamp that happens to be near a an ultra rich area, but not included.
Slidell is another case of people moving to the burbs and talking about how great it is. Slidell's greatedt claim to fame is it is a great place to piss off the interstate on your way to New Orleans.
As for the guy, yeah he is a shit. But he probably does make bank. Consider the sheer numbers of the unwashed still out there who still think the internet is a virtual gold mine. Say he gets 20 of those suckers a month to sign up at a grand a pop. Who is the real fool? Do the math 80 million email adresses are 80 potential million customers for him as well.
Sometimes people pay all of us ungodly amounts of cash for tech services(85 bucks an hour to install a printer or put the new Dell box on the lan.) Us tech guys do not have a stellar rep either.
Email campaigns do make money, for the person selling them. I have been offered good money to do them, and haven't, but depending on my job situation you never know.
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Scelson has had a series of "pink contracts" with ISPs ("we pay more, and you ignore the complaints").
As each of those has been exposed, the ISPs involved have hurriedly shut him off and he's then threatened to sue them unless they pay him off.
The rumor mill says that the house and car came from a $100k payment made by PSInet after Scelson's spam farm was hacked into, rootkitted and all the ISP contracts extracted, then made public.
That was a few weeks after he'd been removed from AT&T after it'd come out he had paid them off too.
Mod me down as a troll if you wish. The pink contracts are detailed in his spamhaus.org ROKSO entries and were covered in media at the time.