Hey:) Another benefit (from a networking standpoint) to replying to all their mail is the potential "network outages" caused by all that traffic. Can anyone say DDDOS (Drastically Distributed Denial of Service - everyone needs a little aliteration).
Another interesting way of dealing with spammers would be for all recipients to create autoresponders that sent a request for removal from their mailing lists to the sending host and...say 20 of their other corporate e-mail accounts (like the president of the company maybe).
From a political side, this would create a tremendous amount of mail that had to be separated when entering their e-mail system. More volume than anyone is willing to read IMHO. The chosen addressees could experience the thrill of receiving "spam volumes" of e-mail, with all of the mail being legitimate.
From a networking standpoint, make sure to include ALL the original content from their advertising, so that they can also experience the load on their networks that they can cause an ISP.
I don't see any reason why MAPS couldn't list the e-mails of 20 people in each organization who you could "e-mail for removal from the mailing list" for both the blacklisted spammers and spammers who cannot be blacklisted (Let's assume that Experion is just the first).
The effect of this case on me is somewhat differenct. I view this as an attack on the principles behind education. How can anyone learn a specific technology and then teach others the same, if there is the fear of a lawsuit because of copyrighted materials. Who is going to teach anyone anything in the future.
Many companies have actually used their superior technology to their benefit! Cisco practically pays you to learn as much about their technology as possible.
This could very well be the end of the information age. Everyone believes that they own a particular piece of information and viciously guards it. There is no longer cross-polination of technology and the entire country settles into a stagnant phase during which noone knows enough general information to build on past technologies.
Obviously, computers are electronic devices. My favorite electronics reference book, which covers all facets of the craft in laymen's terms, is Horowitz and Hills "The Art of Electronics". This text was originally conceived to teach non-electrical engineering (acoustical and mechanical) the skills that they would need to implement their laboratory instrumentation. It really covers everything. I've been doing electrical engineering (mostly embedded systems) for almost twenty years and still find myself referring back to this book.
I can't comment on what is LEGAL, but I can tell you how we compensated the technicians in the NOC I established at my previous employer.
The techs all worked 8 hour days (for a salary), staggered to cover the desks from 6am to 8pm. Outside those hours, a fraction of the techs rotated through on-call duty, and were paid a on-call per diem that we calculated from the likelihood that they would be paged. This per diem was around $2500 per quarter.
When they were paged with a problem, they got paid a "bonus" at time and a half as if they were hourly.
Our HR department was perfectly happy with this arrangement, but I couldn't tell you if its legal (here or in any other state).
Hope this helps
One of our sister companies offers a service called Cellemetry. It is basically low speed telemetry using the control channel of the Cellular phone network. Coverage includes all of North America and is growing internationally. The radios are available with a variety of inputs and outputs (yes you can control things too). Applications include car alarms, tracking of rail stock and remote automated inventory management. Check out Cellemetry's web site or reply to this comment to contact me.
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Hey :) Another benefit (from a networking standpoint) to replying to all their mail is the potential "network outages" caused by all that traffic. Can anyone say DDDOS (Drastically Distributed Denial of Service - everyone needs a little aliteration).
From a political side, this would create a tremendous amount of mail that had to be separated when entering their e-mail system. More volume than anyone is willing to read IMHO. The chosen addressees could experience the thrill of receiving "spam volumes" of e-mail, with all of the mail being legitimate.
From a networking standpoint, make sure to include ALL the original content from their advertising, so that they can also experience the load on their networks that they can cause an ISP.
I don't see any reason why MAPS couldn't list the e-mails of 20 people in each organization who you could "e-mail for removal from the mailing list" for both the blacklisted spammers and spammers who cannot be blacklisted (Let's assume that Experion is just the first).
Just my two cents, smoyer
This will be really useful for the Antarctic population, given the track record for their surgeons becoming ill during their tenure.
Many companies have actually used their superior technology to their benefit! Cisco practically pays you to learn as much about their technology as possible.
This could very well be the end of the information age. Everyone believes that they own a particular piece of information and viciously guards it. There is no longer cross-polination of technology and the entire country settles into a stagnant phase during which noone knows enough general information to build on past technologies.
Free Sklyarov!
Obviously, computers are electronic devices. My favorite electronics reference book, which covers all facets of the craft in laymen's terms, is Horowitz and Hills "The Art of Electronics". This text was originally conceived to teach non-electrical engineering (acoustical and mechanical) the skills that they would need to implement their laboratory instrumentation. It really covers everything. I've been doing electrical engineering (mostly embedded systems) for almost twenty years and still find myself referring back to this book.
I can't comment on what is LEGAL, but I can tell you how we compensated the technicians in the NOC I established at my previous employer. The techs all worked 8 hour days (for a salary), staggered to cover the desks from 6am to 8pm. Outside those hours, a fraction of the techs rotated through on-call duty, and were paid a on-call per diem that we calculated from the likelihood that they would be paged. This per diem was around $2500 per quarter. When they were paged with a problem, they got paid a "bonus" at time and a half as if they were hourly. Our HR department was perfectly happy with this arrangement, but I couldn't tell you if its legal (here or in any other state). Hope this helps
One of our sister companies offers a service called Cellemetry. It is basically low speed telemetry using the control channel of the Cellular phone network. Coverage includes all of North America and is growing internationally. The radios are available with a variety of inputs and outputs (yes you can control things too). Applications include car alarms, tracking of rail stock and remote automated inventory management. Check out Cellemetry's web site or reply to this comment to contact me.