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MS Speaks Out Against New Zealand's Anti Spam Bill

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the the-only-good-spam-is-a-dead-spam dept.

out_sp0k1n writes "Ryan Hamlin, head of Microsoft's Technology Care and Safety Group spoke out against New Zealand's proposed anti-spam legislation, warning that it could impinge on 'the amazing vehicle of e-mail marketing'. He also suggests that CAN-SPAM has been effective in deterring spammers. From The Article: 'Though often criticized as too meek, US anti-spam legislation - which relies on people opting out of spam - has proved effective in supporting prosecutions and deterring spammers.' Anyone else think that one message doesn't count as spam?"

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  1. Re:FUCK YOU MICRO$OFT! by DoorFrame · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That was just a ROCKING first post! Well done!

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  2. How did MS come to have any authority? by sgage · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OK, I've been in this biz since 1976. MS was nothing then, a purveyor of a barely adequate BASIC interpreter (that, true to form, they ripped off from somebody else, and secured with virulent patents - from DAY ONE. Notice the pattern).

    My question is... Why do people put up with this shit? What happened? Who cares what MS thinks? I guess I've just about had it with this bullshit. MS is an emperor with no clothes. They're just a bit bloated bag of shit. I don't care about my /. karma or any other such nonsense. Why can't people just see that the emperor has no clothes? And is full of shit? Has PR and marketing budgets totally overcome people's ability to think rationally? WTF???

    Seriously folks. MS was extremeley toxic from day ONE. They totally subverted and perverted the whole notion of the personal computer. Doesn't anyone remember the early 80's? My question is how this was allowed to happen, how did they do it? It blows my mind. Sort of like the Bush admistration - do people like bending over and getting... well, you know.

    Gates, like Bush, is a scumbag of the first water, and now he's the richest person on the planet. WTF? Something is so seriously wrong, that it defies description.

    OK, I feel a tiny bit better now. But only a tiny bit, because it seems the world is completely bamboozeled by the MS bullshit machine.

    Over and out.

    - s