"Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited email message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community."
The only good thing I can say is they gave a prompt refund.
Exactly! The music distribution industry is aligning istelf with the software distribution king in hopes that they will profit from MS goal of "rent an app" or "pay as you play". That is the new business model where anything is availlable to anyone anyplace anytime as long as your credit is good. "To see todays weather prediction please insert your credit card" only to be spammed by banner ads and 19 levels of click through to get your weather prediction that will undoubtedly be wrong anyway.
Go off giving any credibility to that shit rag fish wrapper wannabe a trade magazine. They do not engage in any kind of responslible reporting. They only want to stir the pot and provoke responses from anyone not caring if the response is positive or negative. Their objective is to generate traffic for the number crunchers. "Look we had X emails last month from our readers!", not taking into account that 90% of those messages were flames for their crappy reporting.
You have to remember this is an IDG company they are in the marketing business, pro spam, pro opt out, anti-privacy, sensationalist bastards from my point of view. I have not renewed my subscription and will find other reading material for the crapper.
That is a personal win for you, but does nothing to stop the abuse by spammy. All that did was get you on Spammy's no send list. Spammy will continue to spew his spoo avoiding his no send list and keep his accounts longer.
Power companies sold off their generating plants because they were a liability and expensive to opperate. The new owners of those power plants want to boost their bottom line. So they grab a hold on the big knob and turn it down, and "Oh! Horrors! There is a power shortage". We now have one more finger in the pie, this was not a problem when the power distributors owned their own plants, they were motivated without power they would have nothing to distribute. Now that they are just distributors the generating owners have us by the balls. Sure there are regulations about prices and such, but hey, just shut down a couple of plants for mantanence and volia! power shortatage! Now the feds will have to revise their regs to allow the generators a raise in revenue because we have a "power shortage". And the distributors go on happy as they still get their cut of the pie and will probably slip in a little boost for themselves along the way even thought they have divested themselves of the burden of generating power. Which is viewed buy most as a nasty thing, pollution and environmental stuff and all that. So I would also look forward to the loosening up of regs regarding power plant construction and emmissions.
Same old shit different day.....
they slam your settings to get you to visit their site. This happened to me on Amazon as well and I have seen it happen to others. Instead of spewing they could send a notice that their records indicate that you have not visited their site in X days and ask to click on link to verify your continued interest and keep you in the DB.
However the marketing machine does not want to give you the opportunity to be removed from their DB they want to keep you and get you to visit their site regularly. So they send spew, and send you on a goose chase around their site to try and find where to unsubscribe. Hopfully you will give up before you luck into the place where they have hidden the unsubscribe stuff, only to find that you need a password for an account that you [did not create/don't remember] to reset your preferences.
After the third try, I sent them a cease and desist order informing them that further non-administrative messages sent to any of my addresses (and listed said addresses) from them or any of their "affiliates" would be read at a rate of $20 per line at 60 char (max) per line including headers. And that any bill for such not paid in full by 30 days after submission, would be followed by small claims action as well as steps being taken to submit them to global spam filtering solutions. Included my full name and contact info and noted the date, county, and state.
I recieved a personal response that my addresses had been removed within hours! I have not heard from them again nor will I ever do business with them again.
As far a E-bay goes, I do not find it usefull in any way, unless I was one of those persons who will drive 20 miles to save a dime. I'm sure there are exceptions such as hobbyists and collectors who are willing to spend a great deal of time rooting around, dealing with the spew from E-bay, getting their address harvested by lurking lusers, dealing with the fraud and other pitfalls just to find a deal on that one unique item in a million pieces of shit. (Ah, the thrill of the hunt!)
Say it with me... "E-bay Sucks! Spamazon Bite me!"
Has/have/will be mutilated by corporatization , greed, or the media. When each in turn has pissed me off to a certain level I decline to participate or utilize the medium. A website that abuses my visitation with unwanted content looses my eyeballs. A concert that is not given in an intimate theater environment looses my ticket sale. A TV or radio station that bombards me with ads gets muted or tuned out. I think that diminishing return traffic will dictate the end of this kind of gagbage. TV has no way to account for how many folks hit the mute button or switch channels, if it did I am sure there would be some changes made. The web however has the ability to show designers what happens when they include offensive content, their hit counts will drop and return traffic stats will take a seroius hit. It will eventually go the way of push technology, everyone remember PointCast? And it is not completely about bandwidth, it is about being bombarded with useless content. People will automatically gravitate towards the more pleasing sites, that means sites that load faster, don't display unwanted content, don't suck up available memory opening extra browser windows, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Which shell?
KRASH, of course....
Should join the BSA just like the others...
Not too long ago wasn't Microsofts public website run on a UNIX platform? (because NT wouldn't scale?)
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q =messagemedia&btnG=Google+Search&meta=group%3Dnews .admin.net-abuse.*
734 hits in N.A.N.A.*
Rule #0 Spam Is theft
Rule #1 Spammers lie
Rule #2 If a spammer appears to be telling the truth see rule #1
I want to see proof that I ever suscribed for ANY spam
All your roads are belong to me......
Sueing XEROX and Cannon for copyright infringment by book publishers?
Unfortunately I don't think it's going to be a case of who's right and who's wrong but rather Nintendo has a bigger legal budget than ZD.
There you go, Justice will be served!
NEXT!
Sounds to me like you are trying to shift the paradigm from top down to botton up management!
good luck......
You'll never purchase a thing from Tiger Direct.
"Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited email message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community."
The only good thing I can say is they gave a prompt refund.
165 million people are using Hotmail
99% of statistics are wrong or misleading
Just like all those people who have installed windows media player, it is added to an IE upgrade by default.....
Yawn
RickB
if you use a set pace pausing between each keystroke of password entry, no keystrokes can be discovered!
RickB
wadaya expect from a marketing major?
Now Bill is gonna want to Borg my Frigidaire!
"All I want is an ice cube! What's this BSOD shit?"
Exactly! The music distribution industry is aligning istelf with the software distribution king in hopes that they will profit from MS goal of "rent an app" or "pay as you play". That is the new business model where anything is availlable to anyone anyplace anytime as long as your credit is good. "To see todays weather prediction please insert your credit card" only to be spammed by banner ads and 19 levels of click through to get your weather prediction that will undoubtedly be wrong anyway.
Isn't technology great?
C# and NET?
Never....
Told me I was the only one!
*sob, sniffle*
Go off giving any credibility to that shit rag fish wrapper wannabe a trade magazine. They do not engage in any kind of responslible reporting. They only want to stir the pot and provoke responses from anyone not caring if the response is positive or negative. Their objective is to generate traffic for the number crunchers. "Look we had X emails last month from our readers!", not taking into account that 90% of those messages were flames for their crappy reporting.
You have to remember this is an IDG company they are in the marketing business, pro spam, pro opt out, anti-privacy, sensationalist bastards from my point of view. I have not renewed my subscription and will find other reading material for the crapper.
That is a personal win for you, but does nothing to stop the abuse by spammy. All that did was get you on Spammy's no send list. Spammy will continue to spew his spoo avoiding his no send list and keep his accounts longer.
The joke is on you!
I have had a hotmail account for over 3 years now that has never received any UCE!
HaHAhahaHaHAhAha
Power companies sold off their generating plants because they were a liability and expensive to opperate. The new owners of those power plants want to boost their bottom line. So they grab a hold on the big knob and turn it down, and "Oh! Horrors! There is a power shortage". We now have one more finger in the pie, this was not a problem when the power distributors owned their own plants, they were motivated without power they would have nothing to distribute. Now that they are just distributors the generating owners have us by the balls. Sure there are regulations about prices and such, but hey, just shut down a couple of plants for mantanence and volia! power shortatage! Now the feds will have to revise their regs to allow the generators a raise in revenue because we have a "power shortage". And the distributors go on happy as they still get their cut of the pie and will probably slip in a little boost for themselves along the way even thought they have divested themselves of the burden of generating power. Which is viewed buy most as a nasty thing, pollution and environmental stuff and all that. So I would also look forward to the loosening up of regs regarding power plant construction and emmissions.
Same old shit different day.....
They are RIAA members probably MPAA as well.
Phillips AIWA Pioneer and others will, only newer ones will decode an MP3.
they slam your settings to get you to visit their site. This happened to me on Amazon as well and I have seen it happen to others. Instead of spewing they could send a notice that their records indicate that you have not visited their site in X days and ask to click on link to verify your continued interest and keep you in the DB.
However the marketing machine does not want to give you the opportunity to be removed from their DB they want to keep you and get you to visit their site regularly. So they send spew, and send you on a goose chase around their site to try and find where to unsubscribe. Hopfully you will give up before you luck into the place where they have hidden the unsubscribe stuff, only to find that you need a password for an account that you [did not create/don't remember] to reset your preferences.
After the third try, I sent them a cease and desist order informing them that further non-administrative messages sent to any of my addresses (and listed said addresses) from them or any of their "affiliates" would be read at a rate of $20 per line at 60 char (max) per line including headers. And that any bill for such not paid in full by 30 days after submission, would be followed by small claims action as well as steps being taken to submit them to global spam filtering solutions. Included my full name and contact info and noted the date, county, and state.
I recieved a personal response that my addresses had been removed within hours! I have not heard from them again nor will I ever do business with them again.
As far a E-bay goes, I do not find it usefull in any way, unless I was one of those persons who will drive 20 miles to save a dime. I'm sure there are exceptions such as hobbyists and collectors who are willing to spend a great deal of time rooting around, dealing with the spew from E-bay, getting their address harvested by lurking lusers, dealing with the fraud and other pitfalls just to find a deal on that one unique item in a million pieces of shit. (Ah, the thrill of the hunt!)
Say it with me... "E-bay Sucks! Spamazon Bite me!"
Has/have/will be mutilated by corporatization , greed, or the media. When each in turn has pissed me off to a certain level I decline to participate or utilize the medium. A website that abuses my visitation with unwanted content looses my eyeballs. A concert that is not given in an intimate theater environment looses my ticket sale. A TV or radio station that bombards me with ads gets muted or tuned out. I think that diminishing return traffic will dictate the end of this kind of gagbage. TV has no way to account for how many folks hit the mute button or switch channels, if it did I am sure there would be some changes made. The web however has the ability to show designers what happens when they include offensive content, their hit counts will drop and return traffic stats will take a seroius hit. It will eventually go the way of push technology, everyone remember PointCast? And it is not completely about bandwidth, it is about being bombarded with useless content. People will automatically gravitate towards the more pleasing sites, that means sites that load faster, don't display unwanted content, don't suck up available memory opening extra browser windows, etc.
if you remove the space
works
c to r_news/OEG20001213S0045
http://www.eetimes.com/story/industry/semicondu