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AOL, MS & Yahoo Unite On Anti-Spam Initiative
dilaudid writes "FT.com has an article about AOL, Yahoo and MS putting aside their differences to combat spam. An AOL VP is quoted as saying "Our customers are telling us it is the number one problem with the internet." Their intended response is "narrowly-defined federal legislation aimed at so-called "king-pin" spammers" who send the bulk of the mails. "
You know your a scumbag when...
Slashdotters support AOL and MS when they attempt to stomp on you.
Between this story, the Open Internet story, spammers sueing Journalists and what not...
I may have to start a betting pool.. and maybe get some popcorn as the hilarity ensues on, "Internet Deathmatch".
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
Microsoft drop Windows, and decide to give all money away to Linux kernel developers.
First a free internet and now this, do they realise that they're ment to be the bad guys?
Brocklesby Park Cricket Club
... federal legislation ...
I feel better already.
Dogs and cats, living together...
[b]mass hysteria![/b]
WTF. MS et al joining together to resist fundamental changes to the internet, and AOL moving to stop SPAM.
What's next? The fall of communism?
Expensive Internet Access! Corporate Invincibility! Internet Community!
With your powers combined, I am Captain Corporate!
(chorus)
Captain Corporate,
he's our hero,
gonna take spam down to zero!
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
This has to be the millionth post I've read about spam on slashdot during the past few days. Anyone else sick of it?
Two stories in a row about MS doing the right thing! I think this is all part of a cunning plan. We'll soon see stories like "MS demands the DMCA is repealed", "MS releases secure OS", "MS replaces Windows EULA with GPL".
A short time later, after gaining the support of all the geeks in the world, we'll see "MS decides to take over and enslave the world", and there will no longer be any organised geek resistance to prevent this.
Now I suppose I can expect the following in my inbox:
04/28/2003 sdogin@microsoft.com Join the fight against spam!
04/28/2003 asgasg@microsoft.com Join the fight against spam!
04/28/2003 dfjdfdsagsdg@aol.com Join the fight against spam!
etc, etc, etc.
Great! After they've sorted out the SPAM problem maybe they can find out who the hell keeps filling my mailbox full of unwanted Internet CDs.
. . Oh.
Please read my Canon EOS tech blog at http://www.everyothershot.com
When you get one set of institutions that pretend to work for the people fighting with another set of institutions that pretend to work for the people..
We cheer and boo both at the same time... social schizophrenia ensues..
OUCH! I HATE AND LOVE MYSELF THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CORPORATIONS!
Someone pull the ripcord!
Since it couldn't possibly be those lovely people at MSN, I can only assume that it was you.
I guess this is proof that there are people out there who would sell their own granny's email address... :)
The obvious problem here is that you're a social recluse and have not been increasing the number and quality of your relationships to keep pace with the number of people who want to sell you stuff. If you had, the percentage of your email that is spam would have remained the same or perhaps even decreased.
Don't blame the spammers. Leave the house more.
paintball
My grandmother got porno spam within 2-3 days of her MSN "internet appliance" getting set up, and it had a very unusual account name(with numbers in it, too)
k00lgr4ndma46@msn.com is not very unusual...
We finally got 2 pop servers at work. One says "Coke" and the other says "Pepsi". But this has not had any difference to the level of spam.
Bernie Shifman fears not. Bernie Shifman and his power-team of attorneys are all powerful. Bernie Shifman flies all over the world to meet with his clients. Little children phj33r Bernie Shifman's 1-3-3-7 consulting sk1llz.
Bernie Shifman will send you his resume! Bernie Shifman will not be stopped! Bernie Shifman conquer Shaq-Fu! Bernie Shifman has uber-leet Flash design skillz! You work for Bernie Shifman! Send your resume to Bernie Shifman!
This has to be the millionth post I've read about spam on slashdot during the past few days. Anyone else sick of it?
To avoid revinue loss from any unauthorized opting out of reading these articles, Slashdot will now start emailing every post containing the word "spam" to all members.
AOL, Microscum and Yahoo! banding together against spam? I always thought AOL, Microscum and spam were The Axis of Evil?
"By the prickling of my thumbs, something goofy this way comes.
It's all fun and games until someone loses the key to the handcuffs.
Screw AOL, MSN, and Yahoo! This is obviously a job for Spiderman, The Punisher, and Daredevil. ;)
/*drunk.. fix later*/
The proposed technical standard would be aimed at identifying "good" from "bad" e-mails on any platform.
So whether you're running Win98, Win2000, or WinXP, you'll be certain to meet the technical standards! Oh, and open source need not apply: you're all terrorists and communists anyway, and obviously a part of the problem.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?