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What's Wrong With Spam Prosecutions

• Comment posted Aug 26, 2004 9:49 pm PDT — by Kevin Murphy
  The DMA lobbies against the private right of action in spam legislation. http://www.the-dma.org/cgi/dispnewsstand?article=1848

• Comment posted Aug 26, 2004 7:19 pm PDT — by Kevin Murphy
  "Spammers always define spam as something they don't do". This is what is happening here. There's an effort to redefine corporate-backed, CAN-SPAM-compliant spam as ham. The fact that most spam is amateurish, offensive, and fraudulent makes it all the easier…

Internet to ITU: Stay Away from My Network

• Comment posted Dec 22, 2004 10:22 pm PST — by Kevin Murphy
  Anyone who doesn't want to spend hundreds of dollars to decode and read proprietary formats can download a free Word viewer here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/CD011197531033.aspx

Abusive Anti-Anti-Spam Scheme a Dreadful Strategy

• Comment posted Jul 29, 2005 10:59 pm PDT — by Kevin Murphy
  My understanding is that each participant sends one single complaint per spam, via the spammer's web site. Is it still a DoS? It's something that could be, and is, done manually by many pissed off consumers. What if we all…

.XXX Puzzle Pieces Start to Come Together: And the Picture is Ugly

• Comment posted Aug 17, 2005 6:26 pm PDT — by Kevin Murphy
  This article seems to assume that .xxx has been killed, rather than just delayed a month. What does everybody else think? Is it dead?