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29 Dec 2005
A new company called Blue Security purports to have an innovative
approach to getting rid of spam. I don't think much of it. As
I said
to an Associated Press reporter:
"It's the worst kind of vigilante approach," said John Levine, a
board member with the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial
E-mail. "Deliberate attacks against people's Web sites are illegal."
Before they started their current scheme they contacted every
anti-spam organization around, including CAUCE where I'm a board
member, trying to find
someone who would sponsor their scheme. Everyone including CAUCE
said no. Since they announced their plan as a separate company, it is my
understanding that at least two and maybe three web hosts have
booted them off due to their abusive plans.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/bluefrog.html
In the CAN SPAM act, the Congress told the FTC to report back and tell
them how it was working.
Last week, the FTC sent out a press release about
some anti-spam
projects they're doing with the states and the Canadian competition
bureau
and mentioned, oh, by the way, we released
this report, which says that CAN SPAM is working pretty well.
I certainly haven't seen any drop in the amount of spam showing up at my
mail server.
Has the FTC lost their minds?
Nope, but this reminds me that CAN SPAM was intended to do many things, but
stop spam was not one of them.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/ftcreport.html
26 Dec 2005
We're taking a few days off for the holiday. Until then, we
wish a joyous holiday season to our readers in the religious and/or
cultural mode(s) you may choose to embrace, and we'll be back next week.
The
Queen's Annual
Message to the Commonwealth is well worth reading, whether or not
you're a Commonwealth citizen (we're not) for its heartfelt thoughts
about what Christmas means at the end of this difficult year.
Stable link is https://jl.ly/xmas05.html
12 Dec 2005
Ed is a travel journalist who's been writing about travel in general
and online travel in particular for many years.
Two years ago he challenged ICANN's delegation of .TRAVEL, the board
ignored him, and he's been pestering them ever since.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/edirp.html
03 Dec 2005
For the first time in the ALAC's history, it had a short joint
meeting with the ICANN board of directors.
The meeting was open, and Bret Fausett has a
podcast of the meeting available.
We spent most of the hour discussing the contentious Verisign settlement
proposal, and the
statement
that the ALAC made, commenting on the proposal.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/alacboard.html
02 Dec 2005
One of the consistent chants we've always heard from ICANN is that there has
to be a single DNS root, so everyone sees the same set of names on the net,
a sentiment with which I agree.
Unfortunately, I discovered at this week's ICANN meeting that due to
ICANN's inaction, it's already too late.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/rootsplit.html
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