Entries by tag: spam
- What really happened on Thanksgiving
Fascinating, and not what kids are taught!
- Spam has fallen to a 10-year low and is unlikely to make a comeback
Hooray!
- Supreme Court judge could rule a 'cuckoo in the nest' topples ancient lineage
Science vs privilege.
- 300 Kate Bush impersonators perform Wuthering Heights
The most bonkers thing you'll see all day.
- Ronald Reagan’s genocidal secret: A true story of right-wing impunity in Guatemala
How Christians commit war crimes.
- What has immigration ever done for us?
Stating the obvious. Again.
- Why did Brussels become the capital of Europe? Because Belgium starts with B!
Glorious account!
- Every Argument About Buffy On The Internet, Ever
Was Kendra's Accent Irish Sometimes, Or Was That Just Me?
- The First Time I Was Mentioned In The @Guardian
Letter to the editor, 2002.
It's happening again - spam comments from sock-puppet accounts to various old entries. Anyone else getting it? (Apart from those whose comments are being replied to.) I'm just deleting the messages and tagging them as spam.
I wondered if last week's attack might be deliberate harassment by someone who disagrees with me politically, but now I think it is just some idiot spammer.
I wondered if last week's attack might be deliberate harassment by someone who disagrees with me politically, but now I think it is just some idiot spammer.
- Current Mood:
annoyed
Received this morning:
Dear Chief Executive Officer,Well, next time I'm running an election campaign in Canada, I'll know who to boycott because of their marketing methods!
Canadian election is just around the corner, you will soon have to reach millions of voters.
[Spammer & Co], a Canadian software company is offering [product], an automated dialing system that allows you to call thousands of citizens per day.
You can use it for: running surveys; fund raising; sending information about your candidates; getting voters opinions; party events announcement. The system can play messages in multiple languages.
For a limited time, with the purchase of a system, we offer all the listed phone numbers of residents across Canada, free of charge. Check the following pages for further details about [product]. Do not hesitate to call us, we will be pleased to answer all your questions.
Best regards,
Spammer Q McSpam
President
Spammer & Co
Has anyone else been spammed by someone calling himself "Kenneth J Harvey", with an email message pimping his latest novel, accompanied by laudatory squibs from J.M. Coetzee, Alistair MacLeod, and Joe O'Connor?
Mr Harvey, I don't know you, and I have no great love for people who send me unsolicited emails advertising commercial products; indeed I was responsible for a successful campaign to get the European Parliament to legislate against such activities on this side of the Atlantic.
If you want me to review your book on this livejournal or on my website, then you can send me a copy, and I'll consider it. But we have not got off to a good start.
coalescent, it was on your reading list back in January (although it is now being pimped as a "new novel"); did you ever get around to it? peake, you seem to have enjoyed reading it some time last year as well. Meanwhile I note both negative and positive reviews elsewhere on lj.
Mr Harvey, I don't know you, and I have no great love for people who send me unsolicited emails advertising commercial products; indeed I was responsible for a successful campaign to get the European Parliament to legislate against such activities on this side of the Atlantic.
If you want me to review your book on this livejournal or on my website, then you can send me a copy, and I'll consider it. But we have not got off to a good start.
coalescent, it was on your reading list back in January (although it is now being pimped as a "new novel"); did you ever get around to it? peake, you seem to have enjoyed reading it some time last year as well. Meanwhile I note both negative and positive reviews elsewhere on lj.Thanks to shsilver for the tip-off: Howard Camarck sentenced to 3.5 - 7 years. This may seem inconsistent with one of my other recent posts, but I rate this as Good News.
shsilver for the tip-off: Howard Camarck sentenced to 3.5 - 7 years. This may seem inconsistent with one of my other recent posts, but I rate this as Good News.Just got an email addressed to me and a former colleague as follows:
Osama Bin Laden Captured.Presumably the website advertised is pr0n.
Hey, Just got this from CNN, Osama Bin Laden has been captured! Goto the link below to view the pics and to download the video if you so wish: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ "Murderous coward he is". God bless America!
I just got one of those fake degree spams, you know:
no degree = no job = no money
get an instant university degree = higher salary
no required tests, classes, books, or interviews!
get a Bachelors, Masters, MBA, and Doctorate (P-h-D) diploma!
ALL CERTS ARE GENUINE/REAL WHICH IT CAN BE FOUND IN UNIVERSITY RECORD [sic]
--> call 1-240-352-7337 (24hrs)
no neeed [sic] study or test
>> call 1-240-352-7337 (24hrs)
I did the usual by reporting it through spamcop and then wondered if there might be some official body in the US to report this to. And discovered to my surprise ( Read more...Collapse )
no degree = no job = no money
get an instant university degree = higher salary
no required tests, classes, books, or interviews!
get a Bachelors, Masters, MBA, and Doctorate (P-h-D) diploma!
ALL CERTS ARE GENUINE/REAL WHICH IT CAN BE FOUND IN UNIVERSITY RECORD [sic]
--> call 1-240-352-7337 (24hrs)
no neeed [sic] study or test
>> call 1-240-352-7337 (24hrs)
I did the usual by reporting it through spamcop and then wondered if there might be some official body in the US to report this to. And discovered to my surprise ( Read more...Collapse )
reddragdiva (via missfairchild) suggests stiriking back at the Mel Gibson comment spammers thus:The Passion of The Christ. Trailers. Good Website. Protesting Gibson's Passion Lacks Moral Legitimacy.
I like it.
This new virus is bombarding me pretty heavily; I guess my explorers at whyte dot com account is pretty badly exposed, but I think I'm immune due to using webmail at work and eudora at home.
One of the incoming infected emails claimed to be from Lorne Cramer, though from his previous job at IRI.
One of the incoming infected emails claimed to be from Lorne Cramer, though from his previous job at IRI.
Over the last few months I've been following a very interesting court case in Florida, where a lawyer claiming to represent various (anonymous) email marketing organisations launched a case earlier this year against a number of anti-spam activists. His case has now collapsed ignominiously for reasons made clear in this large pdf file explaining the defendants' case. They are now going after him for every penny he has got for filing a frivolous lawsuit. One hopes that the spammers who put him up to it will bail him out of the expensive legal mess he is now in.
America has 8% of the world's population but 50% of the world's lawyers. (I think I was told that by Sergio Marchi, Canada's ambassador to the WTO.) And just occasionally this is a Good Thing. Also I have to admit I am amused by the eccentric rulings of Texan judge Samuel B. Kent in such landmark cases as Smith v. Colonial Penn Insurance ("the highway is paved and lighted all the way to Galveston, and thanks to the efforts of this Court's predecessor, Judge Roy Bean, the trip should be free of rustlers, hooligans, or vicious varmints of unsavory kind"), Bradshaw v. Unity Marine Corporation et al ("at the end of the day, even if you put a calico dress on it and call it Florence, a pig is still a pig"), or my personal favourite, ( Bolivia v. Philip Morris.Collapse )
America has 8% of the world's population but 50% of the world's lawyers. (I think I was told that by Sergio Marchi, Canada's ambassador to the WTO.) And just occasionally this is a Good Thing. Also I have to admit I am amused by the eccentric rulings of Texan judge Samuel B. Kent in such landmark cases as Smith v. Colonial Penn Insurance ("the highway is paved and lighted all the way to Galveston, and thanks to the efforts of this Court's predecessor, Judge Roy Bean, the trip should be free of rustlers, hooligans, or vicious varmints of unsavory kind"), Bradshaw v. Unity Marine Corporation et al ("at the end of the day, even if you put a calico dress on it and call it Florence, a pig is still a pig"), or my personal favourite, ( Bolivia v. Philip Morris.Collapse )
Spent an hour this afternoon delivering anti-spam missives to MEPs with the help of Herman Beun, Lousewies van der Laan's assistant, who I met for the first time. Last week's open letter to Solana on Montenegro has certainly increassed our profile on the question, though the entire issue is somewhat cast into the shade by the Milosevic trial. Various calls with colleagues, and with numerous journalists.
The Ant-Men of Tibet and Bridge of Birds both turned out to be excellent buys. Also really enjoyed a novella by Fritz Leiber in the Lovecraft vein that I picked up in Leuven on Saturday. And have been preparing website for inclusion into QUB. Laborious but rewarding.
The Ant-Men of Tibet and Bridge of Birds both turned out to be excellent buys. Also really enjoyed a novella by Fritz Leiber in the Lovecraft vein that I picked up in Leuven on Saturday. And have been preparing website for inclusion into QUB. Laborious but rewarding.
Today's internet activism 1: Goading euro-sceptics on talk.politics.european-union.
Today's internet activism 2: fine-tuning our anti-spam literature for MEPs in an email to George Mills.
Today's real-life activism: Slavica Milacic called from Montenegro. I'd seen in B92 that she is part of the Montenegrin negotiating team for the EU-brokered talks with Belgrade. She invited me to come and do some work with the team over the first weekend in January; sounds like a fine idea to me, since I've never been to Montenegro.
Today at work: finishing Europa South-East Monitor, bits and pieces of website.
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