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AOL, MS & Yahoo Unite On Anti-Spam Initiative

Posted by Hemos on from the fighting-the-bad-men dept.

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. "

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  1. You know your a scumbag when... by bwt · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know your a scumbag when...

    Slashdotters support AOL and MS when they attempt to stomp on you.

    1. Re:You know your a scumbag when... by Ogrez · · Score: 4, Funny

      1. Claim lost revenue from spam on your network 2. become peoples champion to stop spam 3. sue spammers with popular support 4. PROFIT!! 5. Increase ISP fee's for spam free network 6. PROFIT!!

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  2. In Other News... by beders · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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  3. Huh? by FrostedWheat · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... federal legislation ...

    I feel better already.

  4. Real "wrath of God" type stuff by MondoMor · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  5. My favorite show by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

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    "I only speak the truth"
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  6. I'm frightened by 91degrees · · Score: 4, Funny

    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 We'll soon see stories like "MS demands the DMCA is repealed", "MS releases secure OS", "MS replaces Windows EULA with GPL".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.

  7. Great... by $0+31337 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  8. AOL anti-spam crusaders? by jolyonr · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:AOL anti-spam crusaders? by Elbereth · · Score: 4, Funny

      You think getting the occasional CDROM from AOL is bad? Try getting 20 or 30 CDROMs from MSN, all at once. It happened to me about a week ago. I guess the post office got confused and delivered all the MSN CDROMs destined for my neighborhood to my house. It was in a bulk package, with my name and address on the top.

      At least I know the names of all the single women in my neighborhood now.

  9. Re:Exceptions by saintashi · · Score: 4, Funny
    Wanna guess who sold out her email address?

    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... :)

  10. You just don't have enough friends. by raehl · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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