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Non-confirmation at the USPS

I like to buy stuff online when I can. And in fact, I buy lots of stuff online. My latest purchase is a voice modem. I still have DSL so it’s not for the blazing fast 52k connection speed that I could get over my phone line. No, it’s so that I can record telephone [...]

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Ryan Pitylak: Anti-spammer

It’s hard to organize your thoughts about a someone whom you only know from news reports. So, when my friend Anne posted about Ryan Pitylak’s “conversion” to anti-spammer and asked for my thoughts, I gave as honest of an assessment as I could: I’m always skeptical about folks like him. They get slammed by the [...]

Robber sues victims after they beat him

Robber sues victims after they beat him A man is suing an auto-parts store for assault and battery after he attempted to hold up the business and employees responded by beating him with a metal pipe. Dana Buckman, 46, walked into an auto shop brandishing a semiautomatic pistol last summer, only to have it turned [...]

Death and (Email) Taxes

There comes a point in any discussion where it suffers from photon death, for lack of a better term. The discussion, of course, continues long after this point, but it is going to remain limited to something that generates nothing but heat. We have cliches for this, of course. “Generates more heat than light.” “Beating [...]

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MySpace sues TheGlobe.com for CAN-SPAM violations

I haven’t really seen this discussed anywhere else. It’s just a little 3 graf blurb that I got via Google News Alerts. Industry report TECHNOLOGY: MySpace sues for e-mail News Corp.’s MySpace.com, a social networking Web site, sued TheGlobe.com Inc. for $62.3 million, claiming that the rival site operator sent more than 100,000 unsolicited e-mail [...]

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