Anti-Spam Site Accused of Spamming, Fixes Error

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 4, 2002 @11:26AM from the to-be-removed-do-a-rain-dance dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this article on CNN, banthespam.com is accused of spamming its visitors. Excerpt: Even if an Internet user chose not to receive e-mail updates from the Telecommunications Research and Action Center, one of the effort's sponsors, the Web site replied with the message: 'You are currently signed up for news and information.' This doesn't help guys . . ." As the article states, the problem was quickly caught and corrected -- and banthespam.com looks like another force for good in the world.

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much ado about nothing... by outlier · 2002-09-04 11:33 · Score: 5, Insightful

It seems that this is much ado about nothing. It seems that it was a case of overzealous cutting and pasting.

According to this response by the alleged spammers:
The TRAC site did indeed for a short period of time state "You are currently signed up for news and information." - but that statement was inaccurate and was just a template response that was generated when a person's story was submitted (standard language from a script that was copied).

Don't ascribe to malice that which can be better explained by incompetance...