Archive for November, 2007
You know what’s sad?
It’s sad when the State Attorney General’s office has an “it’s not me” unit to deal with cases of mistaken identity. …And things are so messed up that they work with a 3 week backlog. service
Listrak sends me spam for the American Medical Association
All of a sudden, out of the clear blue sky, I start getting email from the American Medical Association. This is coming to my personal email account, one that I have never given to the AMA. As you can see, I’ve gotten 3 of them. After the 3rd one, I finally went ahead and took [...]
Multiplying Goalposts
Some years ago I stopped following the USENET group news.admin.net-abuse.email. However, like many people who do what I do, it is somewhat necessary to follow for work-related reasons. So, I’m reading it again. There is an interesting discussion going on now that is rather telling for people in the industry. It centers around what words [...]
Gold Lasso Email Marketing Anti-Spam Policy?
So, today I get email from iLinc. Unsolicited email. To an alias account. Say what? You know, the guy you want to make sure doesn’t get spam is the ISP Relations Director for a more-or-less direct competitor. That’d be me. I know who I’ve handed that particular alias to (one company, and for a very [...]
How Not to Run a Network
So, today I’m going through the motions of work. A lot of what I do, of course, is quite mindless. There’s some evaluation and some discretion involved, but really, it all starts to look the same after a while. Then, I come across something new. It’s something that seems to say that we’ve been listed [...]
It’s hard being in court so much
If you’re the owner(s) of Usenet.com, you must really feel in a pickle. One the one hand, you might feel really good. This month, Sierra Corporate Design, Inc., managed to take to trial a lawsuit against David Ritz alleging that the use of DNS is illegal in the state of North Dakota. It’s been a [...]
