CALIFORNIA LEGISLATOR Debra Bowen is Quoted as Saying: "Trusting Microsoft to protect computer users from spam is like putting telemarketers in charge of the do-not-call list." ----- ---- --- -- - - MICROSOFT CRITICIZES SPAMMERS AND SPAMS THEMSELVES? Do You Feel It Is OK for the World's Largest Software Monopoly to Spam and Nobody Else? You Make the Decision... Shouldn't the Largest Monopoly Worldwide be Setting an Example? -> Remember MICROSOFT Sends SPAM For Thousands of Companies. -> Just Because The Words "Microsoft" Aren't In The Spam, It -> Doesn't Mean They Don't Profit a Fortune in $$$ From Their -> BCentral Listbuilder Spam For Hire Email Spamming Service. ----- ---- --- -- - - [QUOTES 11 to 35 of 750 COMPLAINTS on MICROSOFT'S SPAMMING] All Archived for Public Viewing on Google Groups Newsgroups: news.admin.net.abuse.email & Listserv SPAM-L Mailing List 11- "Microsoft is going to spam no matter what anyone says. The whole "Master suppression list" is a farce. All it does is keep the most vocal complainers quiet by not sending any spam to them. Microsoft DOES NOT care what people want or don't want." - Zeh Suna 12- "there is a creditability problem when Microsoft keeps spamming after numerous persons have pointed out there is an abuse problem especially when there is a Master suppression list." - Richard 13- "My work mailbox has been pretty obscure, so it gets very little spam generally, and this is the first time I have ever been spammed at work by an organization that would be considered "legitimate" by some." - Errol 14- "I was getting an East Coast edition of some Microsoft newsletter at a nonexistent mail address on a placeholder website that can't send mail or browse, isn't indexed, and resides on a BSD box. I don't know where they get those addresses." - John Nagle 15- "Just got this from Microsoft themselves. I never registered with them without a plus-style trap box (should be tygris+ms@...) so this looks like to be a Washington-State Law violation. Anyone else get this? (Also looks like direct to MX spamming, too)" - Daniel S. Riley 16- "Microsoft haven't been very good about honoring their commitments to clean up their act. I'd say an RBL is in their future." - Jay 17- "Microsoft was even sending spam to a domain I own that just has a placeholder web page with no contact information. It can't send mail or web browse at all. Yet Microsoft spammed it." - John Nagle 18- "I bounce everything from newswire.microsoft.com. A few months ago, they started adding the news. to it, so I bounce that too." - Nick Nicholas 19- "There's two ways to LART Micro$haft, fusion warheads (too destructive to all that nice lumber), and using MacOS/LINUX/BeOS..." - Jason Crowell 20- "I HAD subscribed to about three of their lists, primarily developer stuff, but when they spammed madly about 6 - 8 months ago, I went through our contacts here at IU and got a PR guy, and raised hell." - Ron 21- "Where is Microsoft getting these email addresses? Are they buying them from other companies? Are they stealing them with stream sniffers? (They write the "TO" address in all uppercase.)" - Blornx 22- "Microsoft newswire is still spamming. Some of us at work got one today for Publisher" - Kelly Striker Price 23- "Microsoft has recently been sending me the German language edition of the Microsoft Internet Newsletter. I never signed up for anything from Microsoft, and certainly not auf Deutsch. Their unsubscribe procedure doesn't give any feedback." - Dan Riley 24- "My work email account doesn't get spam, was never given to Microsoft, and we are not registered users of Publisher -- we don't even own it or use it" - Blornx 25- "Microsoft is still Microsoft. following are my spam report and Microsoft's reply. Gee, how did this get to be so predictable, how did I know Microsoft's reply would say that they would take no action towards reducing their cooperation with this spammer." - Norman Diamond 26- "Microsoft got lots of press for Microsoft's pretense of opposing spammers, but all of that is just more lies. Microsoft will continue cooperating with Microsoft's spam partners, redirecting from g.msn.com to choice-is-yours.com" - Darwin 27- "There's no other way to stop receiving their spam... they won't remove you, and there's no way to LART Microsoft." - John Nagle 28- "It was the same with me when I complained to Microsoft about their BCentral counters that were being largely used in spams. They always answered with the "this mail did not come from Microsoft" boiler plate, and rarely wrote back to the followups." - Darwin 29- "I still get spam from/implicating bcentral.com. I complain through spamcop. Nothing happens." - Bj 30- "Microsoft has been known to send spam to people who do not use their junk and have never requested any mail, alerting these uninterested non-customers to the availability of patches to fix problems with MS products." - Stinky 31- "One of the best spams actually from M$ was the Y2K spam run. I didn't own a single PC at the time yet I received this email several times. Go figure." - Norman 32- "It's easier to just block them. I can't imagine getting anything, ever, from Microsoft by email" - Magenta Sky 33- "Now I just got off the telephone with Mike at Microsoft and he apparently lied to me because I just recieved a new spam from them" - Jay 34- "What does it take to stop the spam from Microsoft when MAPS sits on their hands?" - Mark Ferguson 35- "Considering how much Microsoft spams, that would be funny if I weren't sure they know perfectly well they'll be breaking the law the moment it passes, and just don't care. And why should they? It's not like the law applies to them." - Magenta Sky ----- ---- --- -- - - [SPAMIS: Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam] [Part 37 of 178] - SPAMIS - PO BOX 1259 - SEATTLE, WA 98101 - USA