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JBoss's Fleury Abjures Astroturfing
comforteagle writes "JBoss head honcho Marc Fleury has laid down the law about Astroturfing in the aftermath of being accused of the practice without actually admitting it was done. 'Our visibility and success puts our customers and partners in a situation where you expect and demand that employees of JBoss Inc. hold themselves to that higher standard. Let's put the professional back in professional open source. "Astroturfing" is hereby banned at JBoss, starting with me.'" jg21 writes "After the Slashdotting of the whole issue, the wider community took up the theme. LinuxWorld's editor in chief took to task those who sought to "pollute the knowledge space," and then Richard Öberg and Cameron Purdy took up the theme with a call to raise the cyber-bar when it coms to integrity. Now JBoss's CEO has recanted: there will be no more fake posts from JBoss staffers, he says. Hmm, time will tell."
Well, South African society set a standard for bad practices: tell all you wrong doings and "be forgiven" by the community.
I would like to know which postings are faked.
nosig today
Kidding aside, Mr. Cumming, but how about using an unmunged email address here on Slashdot like I do?
My program, CF13, which I use to 'protect' iamcf13@hotpop.com, takes a 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!' approach to fighting spam and emailed fraud and malware. It is surprisingly effective!
All the spam I've received since 2004-03-15 08:30:58 UTC has been archived into a single file for easy perusal and deletion. If I wanted to, I could use an even more draconian version of CF13 that would delete most spam at the server level after just analyzing the email headers!
CF13 does not have the overhead or resource consumption that all other Bayesian-ish email filters have.
Rather than 'play games' with spammers, CF13 changes the rules of unsolicited email communications--making it virtually impossible for spammers to successfully deliver their unwanted messages.
As an added benefit, the current SMTP/POP3 email network infrastructure remains intact--making it unecessary to discard it for 'something new and improved' that doesn't have the widespread acceptance and reliability that SMTP/POP3 has.
Me: http://www.cf13.com/ Slashdot: Not newsworthy. You decide. PS: Read first before emailing me.
(Because if you violate CF13's email policy, your email WILL be treated as spam and processed as such.)