Spam I got
Subj: Bush large shareholder - New USA Oil Find USA SMALL CAP REVIEW DMT Energy, Inc. (DMTY) RECORD SETTING HIGH PREDICTED THIS WEEK!! Current Price @ Close July 22 $0.55 7-Day Price Target $1.70 30-Day Price Target $2.30 12-Month Target $3.75 Shares Outs 25.0 M Float 3.8 M We hear News expected about a large find due out Monday The outlook for North American oil and gas exploration is extremely positive from an investment perspective, with increasing US energy demands projected over the near and long term sustaining major gains for oil and gas producers. The recent California energy crisis, the looming United States energy crunch (the most serious domestic energy situation since the 1970's), and the increasingly unstable international environment for oil and natural gas exploration and production, have placed a renewed emphasis on domestic energy exploration. While crude oil and natural gas prices on the spot market are likely to come off of their current highs, the immediate term price outlook remains favorable, and long term price projections forecast significant increases. Even as government and academia invest billions in the search for alternative sources of energy, the demand for natural gas and oil continues to grow and is expected to expand exponentially over the next twenty years. According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) the US demand for refined petroleum products will grow by over 35 percent in the next two decades, increasing from 18.0 million barrels per day in 1996 to over 24.6 million barrels per day by 2020, a 35% increase. The growth of domestic demand for natural gas, driven by expanding natural gas-fired electric generation plants, will be even more pronounced skyrocketing from current levels of roughly 23 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) to 32-37 Tcf by 2020. As the recent energy crisis in California has demonstrated, the US natural gas and energy supply will prove increasingly tenuous without additional and vigorous exploration and production efforts are undertaken. At the same time, the international situations in Iraq and Venezuela have show the vulnerability of US petroleum stocks and highlighted the urgent need for increased domestic production. The recent National Energy Policy of President Bush and Vice President Cheney has called for dramatically increased production of domestic oil and natural gas resources to meet this expanding domestic energy demand. For the petroleum industry, this renewed impetus on domestic exploration and production has led to several new developments that improve the likelihood of exploration success and the location of new reserves. Many of the technologies associated with oil and gas exploration have been significantly enhanced over the last several years, and the refinement of techniques such as three dimensional seismic imaging have made oil exploration far more efficient, increasing the accuracy of modeling and decreasing the chances of missing oil. The second way that oil exploration is becoming more efficient is the increased practice of reexamining properties that were no longer thought to be profitable. Many properties through the 1970's were extracted only using primary production techniques and then prematurely abandoned when production became more expensive and problematic, leaving significant quantities of oil and natural gas. It has been estimated that many of these early producing fields can contain as much as 50-60% of recoverable production. Smaller oil exploration and production companies, such as Newfield Exploration Oil (NYSE: NFX) and Houston Exploration Company (NYSE: THX) have enjoyed huge successes through employing strategies that focus on reworking overlooked and bypassed production properties. With a diversified portfolio of balanced oil gas properties, an exploration and production strategy that emphasized the importance of developing and exploiting overlooked and bypassed reserves with new technologies and innovative approaches, and a seasoned management team and advisory board with over 150 years of collective petroleum industry experience, DMT Energy, Inc. is well positioned to benefit from new oil and gas production initiatives. DMT Energy has developed an impressive portfolio of oil and gas properties in Alberta and British Columbia, and Northern Canada that have B potential for successful production over the near-to-intermediate term period with limited capital investment. The Company is capitalizing on both of the major trends in domestic oil and gas EP efforts, carefully selecting and screening properties for maximum potential of overlooked and bypassed production opportunities in oil producing area, and utilizing 3-D seismic and other advanced exploration techniques, including proprietary reservoir modeling techniques developed by EVP Don Hryhor, to mitigate risks. The Company is within months of beginning production efforts on its Acadia and Wainwright properties, where B oil gas
Re: Spam fraud moves up a notch
Not to be confused with Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Fed Board of Govs. -- mbs Subject: Spam fraud moves up a notch Usually I get requests from the families of disgraced dictators. Now look who writes me. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Assistance from you Office of the Chairman The Independent Committee of Eminent Persons 20 rue de Candolle (3rd Floor), 1205 Geneva, Switzerland email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.icep-iaep.org : web My name is Paul A. Volker . . .
Spam fraud moves up a notch
Usually I get requests from the families of disgraced dictators. Now look who writes me. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:26:31 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Assistance from you Office of the Chairman The Independent Committee of Eminent Persons 20 rue de Candolle (3rd Floor), 1205 Geneva, Switzerland email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.icep-iaep.org : web My name is Paul A. Volker, Chairman Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (ICEP), Switzerland. ICEP is charged with the responsibility of finding bank accounts in Switzerland belonging to non-Swiss indigenes, which have remained dormant since World War II. It may interest you to know that in July of 1997, the Swiss Banker's Association published a list of dormant accounts originally opened by non-Swiss citizens. These accounts had been dormant since the end of World War II (May 9, 1945). Most belonged to Holocaust victims. The continuing efforts of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (ICEP) have since resulted in the discovery of additional dormant accounts - 54,000 in December, 1999. The published lists contain all types of dormant accounts, including interest-bearing savings accounts, securities accounts, safe deposit boxes, custody accounts, and non-interest-bearing transaction accounts. Numbered accounts are also included. Interest is paid on accounts that were interest bearing when established. The Claims Resolution Tribunal (CRT) handles processing of all claims on accounts due non-Swiss citizens. A dormant account of ORDNER ADELE with a credit balance of 35,000,000 US dollar plus accumulated interest was discovered by me. The beneficiary was murdered during the holocaust era, leaving no WILL and no possible records for trace of heirs. The Claims Resolution Tribunal has been mandated to report all unclaimed funds for permanent closure of accounts and transfer of existing credit balance into the treasury of Switzerland government as provided by the law for management of assets of deceased beneficiaries who died interstate (living no wills). Being a top executive at ICEP, I have all secret details and necessary contacts for claim of the funds without any hitch. The funds will be banked in an offshore bank which will be a tax free, safe haven for funds and we can share the funds and use in investment of our choice. Due to the sensitive nature of my job, I need a foreigner to HELP claim the funds. All that is required is for you to provide me with your details for processing of the necessary legal and administrative claim documents for transfer of the funds to you. Kindly provide me with your full name, address, and telephone/fax. I will pay all required fees to ensure that the fund is transferred to a secure, numbered account in your name in an offshore bank, of which you will be capable of accessing the funds gradually and transferring to your country and other banks of choice in the world. My share will be 60 percent and your share is 40 per cent of the total amount. THERE IS NO RISK INVOLVED. You can find additional information about unclaimed funds through the internet at the following websites: www.swissbankclaims.com http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9902/09/germany.holocaust/ www.avotaynu.com www.icheic.org www.livingheirs.com www.wiesenthal.com The Holocaust Claims Processing Office has put funds in Escrow awaiting submission of valid claims for necessary disbursement. I find myself privileged to have this information and this may be a great opportunity for a lifetime of success without risks. Due to security reasons, reply to me via email only. You may reply to me securely on the following email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for your prompt response. Paul A. Volker. - End forwarded message - -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Re: Spam fraud moves up a notch
Michael P wrote: Usually I get requests from the families of disgraced dictators. Now look who writes me. Office of the Chairman The Independent Committee of Eminent Persons 20 rue de Candolle (3rd Floor), 1205 Geneva, Switzerland email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.icep-iaep.org : web My name is Paul A. Volker, Chairman Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (ICEP), Switzerland. ICEP is charged with the responsibility of finding bank accounts in Switzerland belonging to non-Swiss indigenes, which have remained dormant since World War II. Jim C: I get the same--and also usually from families of disgraced dictators. But I didn't get this one from Volker, mine came from another source: My name is Mr Hanks Moss a member of Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (ICEP), Switzerland. ICEP is charged with the responsibility of finding bank accounts in Switzerland belonging to non-Swiss indigenes, which have remained dormant since World War II. It may interest you to know that in July of 1997, the Swiss Banker's Association published a list of dormant accounts originally opened by non-Swiss citizens. These accounts had been dormant since the end of World War II (May 9, 1945). Most belonged to Holocaust victims. The continuing efforts of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (ICEP) have since resulted in the discovery of additional dormant accounts - 54,000 in December, 1999.The published lists contain all types of dormant accounts, including interest-bearing savings accounts, securities accounts, safe deposit boxes, custody accounts, and non-interest-bearing transaction accounts. Numbered accounts are also included. Interest is paid on accounts that were interest bearing when established. The Claims Resolution Tribunal (CRT) handles processing of all claims on accounts due non-Swiss citizens. A dormant account of ORDNER ADELE with a credit balance of 45,000,000 US dollar plus accumulated interest was discovered by me. The beneficiary was murdered during the holocaust era, leaving no WILL and no possible records for trace of heirs. The Claims Resolution Tribunal has been mandated to report all unclaimed funds for permanent closure of accounts and transfer of existing credit balance into the treasury of Switzerland government as provided by the law for management of assets of deceased beneficiaries who died interstate (living no wills). Being a top executive at ICEP, I have all secret details and necessary contacts for claim of the funds without any hitch. The funds will be banked in the Cayman Island, being a tax free, safe haven for funds and we can share the funds and use in investment of our choice.Due to the sensitive nature of my job, I need a foreigner to HELP claim the funds. All that is required is for you to provide me with your details for processing of the necessary legal and administrative claim documents for transfer of the funds to you. Kindly provide me with your full name, address, and telephone/fax. I will pay all required fees to ensure that the fund is transferred to a secure, numbered account in your name in the Cayman Island, of which you will be capable of accessing the funds gradually and transferring to your country and other banks of choice in the world. My share will be 60 percent and your share is 40 per cent of the total amount. THERE IS NO RISK INVOLVED. You can find additional information about unclaimed funds through the internet at the following websites: www.swissbankclaims.com http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9902/09/germany.holocaust/ www.avotaynu.com www.icheic.org www.livingheirs.com www.wiesenthal.com The Holocaust Claims Processing Office has put funds in Escrow awaiting submission of valid claims for necessary disbursement.I find myself priviledged to have this information and this may be a great opportunity for a life time of success without risks.Due to security reasons, reply to my via email only. You may reply to me securely on the following email,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for your prompt response. Mr Hanks Moss
Re: Spam fraud moves up a notch
The Claims Resolution Tribunal has been mandated to report all unclaimed funds for permanent closure of accounts and transfer of existing credit balance into the treasury of Switzerland government as provided by the law for management of assets of deceased beneficiaries who died interstate (living no wills). __ OK, I'll ask... isn't dying interstate a federal offense, and thus falls under jurisdiction of Fumblers, Bumblers, and Idiots?
Re: Spam fraud moves up a notch
Should be reading dying intestate or without a will. Jim C. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sartesian Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 6:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Spam fraud moves up a notch The Claims Resolution Tribunal has been mandated to report all unclaimed funds for permanent closure of accounts and transfer of existing credit balance into the treasury of Switzerland government as provided by the law for management of assets of deceased beneficiaries who died interstate (living no wills). __ OK, I'll ask... isn't dying interstate a federal offense, and thus falls under jurisdiction of Fumblers, Bumblers, and Idiots?
Re: Spam fraud moves up a notch
New that Jim, it was just a joke... interstate, Volker can't wait to send this guys my CC number - Original Message - From: Craven, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 4:03 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Spam fraud moves up a notch Should be reading dying intestate or without a will. Jim C. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sartesian Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 6:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Spam fraud moves up a notch The Claims Resolution Tribunal has been mandated to report all unclaimed funds for permanent closure of accounts and transfer of existing credit balance into the treasury of Switzerland government as provided by the law for management of assets of deceased beneficiaries who died interstate (living no wills). __ OK, I'll ask... isn't dying interstate a federal offense, and thus falls under jurisdiction of Fumblers, Bumblers, and Idiots?
spam
there's so much spam these days, it's like smog. jd in LA
sudden loss of spam
The amount of spam I get has fallen drastically in the last few weeks. Is this a sign of further globalisation - the US government finally moving in coalition with major monopoly capitalist bodies like Microsoft, to hunt down the spammers? And the spammers have suddenly got scared? I am afraid I am grateful. It is a step towards the global enforcement of global standards, and the capitalists are unfortunately in control. Chris Burford
Re: sudden loss of spam
Chris Burford wrote: The amount of spam I get has fallen drastically in the last few weeks. Is this a sign of further globalisation - the US government finally moving in coalition with major monopoly capitalist bodies like Microsoft, to hunt down the spammers? And the spammers have suddenly got scared? I am afraid I am grateful. It is a step towards the global enforcement of global standards, and the capitalists are unfortunately in control. no need to look for conspiracies... my spam stays at usual healthy levels of growth. i can forward you some of mine, if you wish: do you prefer penis or breast enlargement? or both? ;-). --ravi
Re: sudden loss of spam
Chris, I must be getting your spam, because my inflow has gone up. I can forward it to you if you want. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Re: sudden loss of spam
A few months ago ISU introduced a filter of some kind that reduced spam flow radically. It's been creeping up since but hasn't yet reached the earlier level. Carrol
Re: sudden loss of spam
Ah. Chris - Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 3:05 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] sudden loss of spam Chris, I must be getting your spam, because my inflow has gone up. I can forward it to you if you want. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Re: sudden loss of spam
I have a spam filter and all of the spam sit in a folder called junk mail and every Sunday automatically they are deleted. Works quite well but some genuine mass mailings, such as news items, some pen-l postings get directed to the junk-mail folder, while some disclosing that they are the sons and daughters or widows of general so and so from Liberia, Nigeria...still show up in my inbox. I must say though the anatomical ones have disappeared even from the junk folder. cheers, anthony xxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Associate Professor Comparative International Development University of WashingtonCampus Box 358436 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-4462 Fax : (253) 692-5718 xxx On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Michael Perelman wrote: Chris, I must be getting your spam, because my inflow has gone up. I can forward it to you if you want. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Spam at a new level of evil
My uncle recently died. He was a fine man. Today, I got this letter, which appeals
to emotions over and above greed.
- Forwarded message from mike paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:24:28 -0500
From: mike paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Subject: ATTN: Perelman
Dear Perelman,
Compliments.
I am Barrister Mike Paul a solicitor and attorney at
law. I am the personal attorney to Mr.Mark Perelman a
national of your country, who used to work with shell
development company in Nigeria and as well a one time
secret agent in transfering of money overseas for
the Late head of state of Nigeria {Late Gen.SANI
ABACHA}.
Before his death On the 21st of April 1999 [ my
client, his wife And their three children were
involved in a car accident along sagbama express road
in which all occupants of the motor died}. My client
deposited the sum of $10m in Inland Trust Securities
Company here in Nigeria for himself, with the hope of
transferring it to his country as soon as he is on
leave.
Since his death I have made several enquiries to your
embassy to locate any of my clients extended
relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.After
these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to
trace his last name over the Internet, to locate any
member of his family hence I contacted you. I have
contacted you to assist in repartrating the money and
property left behind by my client before they get
confisicated or declared unserviceable by the Security
Company where this huge deposits were lodged.
Particularly, the Inland Trust Securities Company
where the deceased had an account valued at about 10
million dollars has issued me a notice to provide the
next of kin or have the account confiscated within the
next 21 official working days.
Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the the
relatives for over 2years now, I seek your consent to
present you as the next of kin of the deceased since
you have the same last name so that the proceeds of
this account valued at 10million dollars can be paid
to you and then you and I can share the money.50% to
me and 50% to you.I have all necessary legal documents
that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All
I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see
this deal through. I guarantee that this will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in
touch with me by my private email
address:([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to enable us
discuss further.
Best regards,
Barrister Mike Paul
Tel:234-803-7027627
Get your own 800 number
Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more
http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag
- End forwarded message -
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
why is spam worse
I have never received so much spam. Does the new law just encourage them? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Re: why is spam worse
Michael Perelman wrote: I have never received so much spam. Does the new law just encourage them? are you extrapolating from today's email volume? if so, it could be that you are being hit by a virus, not spam: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] if the above is not the case, i still encourage list members to read the above warning and take necessary precautions and steps to avoid the above virus, which is spreading at a somewhat disturbing pace. --ravi
the weirdest spam I ever got
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Re: the weirdest spam I ever got
I think it's Billy Joel's working notes for the 1990s update of We Didn't Start The Fire. dd On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 06:39:17 -0500, Michael Pollak wrote: [picnic.jpg] adulthood boggle botswana expressly polluted messy sanely acquit playtime bostonian hoses hunted count billie thence exclusively humorously hydrophilic breadwinners scalar plenteous bolstering scrapping textural bogey thallophyte explores bonze boll tensions pounces crossable albright potent pont popular housekeepers cozy milkiness politic sapsucker bonnets crackle tamper melanin accommodated mayoral achieve tan ad bernadine season crackling creations bismarck bona meritoriousness exorcise cowardice euphorbia bluefish teaching term adjudicated imagen albanian seasonal plebian tactics microsecond taxis admitted exertion tease activations aztecan countable bootstrap sear bizet savage [thank.gif] mate exchequer aylesbury admixture ads idlers boot tags hundredfold allstate branched baylor sears bhutan arnold adjacent existent courtrooms agway bookstores midpoints cremation aces evenhandedness exhale excepts playthings bogging advancement bottles arlen estimates ariadne talkers tail cribbing hyphen house illumination hysteresis criticize american boughs pragmatic eventide explosively crossly positron seamed acrylate bop exhausting podge exempts mauve craved telepathic angelica secedes hypothetic bolshevik sculpt abernathy tainted evidential scarce boatswain eviller melodic then idealizations tensile eventful plebiscites adjutants bourbon am
Re: the weirdest spam I ever got
Didn't remember that one. Pretty sharp. http://uploader.wuerzburg.de/gym-fkg/schule/fachber/englisch/joel/songtext.h tml We Didn't Start the Fire is a song about blame and about victims. A song about problems brought on by a society's lack of concern for the rights of their fellow man. A song about a society's cultural icons. A song about a country, the United States, and the roles it and its people have played in world for the last 50 years. Billy Joel wrote this song to remind his peers that yes, this country has problems, but that they weren't the cause. He wanted to tell a society's younger generation that it's okay to want to fix these problems, but no-one, especially those who did cause the problems, could expect them to fix them all in day; they weren't the ones who gathered the kindling; they weren't the ones who struck the match, they weren't the ones who started the fire... Source: http://www2.msstate.edu/~els4/ And then, for balance, there is also http://www.geocities.com/~sdsundstrom/inever.html J. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 3:27 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] the weirdest spam I ever got I think it's Billy Joel's working notes for the 1990s update of We Didn't Start The Fire. dd On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 06:39:17 -0500, Michael Pollak wrote: [picnic.jpg] adulthood boggle botswana expressly polluted messy sanely acquit playtime bostonian hoses hunted count billie thence exclusively humorously hydrophilic breadwinners scalar plenteous bolstering scrapping textural bogey thallophyte explores bonze boll tensions pounces crossable albright potent pont popular housekeepers cozy milkiness politic sapsucker bonnets crackle tamper melanin accommodated mayoral achieve tan ad bernadine season crackling creations bismarck bona meritoriousness exorcise cowardice euphorbia bluefish teaching term adjudicated imagen albanian seasonal plebian tactics microsecond taxis admitted exertion tease activations aztecan countable bootstrap sear bizet savage [thank.gif] mate exchequer aylesbury admixture ads idlers boot tags hundredfold allstate branched baylor sears bhutan arnold adjacent existent courtrooms agway bookstores midpoints cremation aces evenhandedness exhale excepts playthings bogging advancement bottles arlen estimates ariadne talkers tail cribbing hyphen house illumination hysteresis criticize american boughs pragmatic eventide explosively crossly positron seamed acrylate bop exhausting podge exempts mauve craved telepathic angelica secedes hypothetic bolshevik sculpt abernathy tainted evidential scarce boatswain eviller melodic then idealizations tensile eventful plebiscites adjutants bourbon am
spam spam spam spam spam
[no exit from the litigatory nuthouse] Can it, Spam firm tells American software makers George Wright Saturday July 5, 2003 The Guardian A legal battle for the right to incorporate the word spam in the trademark of software companies has begun in the US. Hormel Foods, the makers of Spam luncheon meat, are challenging a technology company in Seattle which wants to trademark SpamArrest, the name of its software for email users. Brian Cartmell, SpamArrest's chairman and chief executive, said: Spam is a common term describing unsolicited commercial email. Dozens of companies use the word spam in their legal and commercial names and no one confuses any of us with the Hormel canned meat product. He pointed out that Hormel itself says on its website that it does not object to the word being used for unsolicited emails, provided that the product image is not associated with it. But Hormel, which produces a wide range of ready meals and meat products, has challenged SpamArrest's trademark application. In an objection sent to the US Patent and Trademark Office it argues that it has built up substantial goodwill and good reputation for the Spam brand name, which would be damaged by SpamArrest's use of the term. The Washington Post reports that the company said that SpamArrest's name so closely resembled that of its luncheon meat that the public might become confused, or might even think that Hormel endorses SpamArrest's products. Derek Newman, the Seattle lawyer who who represents SpamArrest, said: Inexplicably, Hormel is challenging anyone who uses the word spam as part of a trademark. Spam has become ubiquitous throughout the world to describe unsolicited commercial email. No company can claim trademark rights on a generic term. SpamArrest is both our corporate name and an arbitrary trademark. We are not claiming the right to use the generic term spam alone, but we will protect the name of our company and the brand of our product. Spam products began to appear on the shelves of US grocery shops as far back as 1937. Last year it sold its six billionth can of Spam. The full range stretches to Spam Lite, Spam Oven Roasted Turkey, Spam Smoke Flavored, and Spam Less Sodium.
War on spam
On the one hand, I hate having to wade through 300+ email crap every day. (I have old, Web published, email addresses from media work. Those addresses have been harvested and used by spammers -- as I would imagine many in academia also have a problem with.) It would be nice to only get email from sources/people I would choose. (I actually remember those days... back in 1990. Email was almost entirely signal, no noise.) On the other hand, I don't want to regulate contact through some Microsoft-driven piece of poor legislation (from political allies like Hatch). For instance, in Quebec, there is actually talk of licensing Jehovah Witnesses to stop them from knocking on doors. I can see that as being, as Sir Humphrey Appleby would put it, the thin end of the wedge. Who would _really_ be banned from canvassing? On the other (third) hand, spammers are, in general, that meshugeneh petty bourgeois crew I mentioned before. Nothing is going to stop them, short of death. (Have any of you talked to these guys?) Ken. -- Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. -- Thomas Szasz --- cut here --- Microsoft Sues 15 Groups in Broad Attack on Spam By SAUL HANSELL New York Times June 18, 2003 Microsoft, the world's largest provider of e-mail accounts, filed lawsuits yesterday against 15 groups of individuals and companies that it says collectively sent its clients more than two billion unwanted e-mail messages. Unwanted e-mail, commonly called spam, has been a fast-growing problem for many e-mail users. The Hotmail service from Microsoft, with 140 million users, has been a fat target for spammers. The company estimates that more than 80 percent of the more than 2.5 billion e-mail messages sent each day to Hotmail users are spam. It now blocks most of those spam messages. All of the large Internet service providers, including America Online, Earthlink and Yahoo, have started filing lawsuits against e-mailers that they say are sending spam. Microsoft's suits represent the largest number filed at one time, and reflect Microsoft's willingness to devote some of its considerable resources to fighting spam. It promised more such actions to come. We at Microsoft are ramping up our efforts to combat spam, said Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, at a news conference yesterday. But many spam experts say that these suits do little to actually prevent spam. At the end of the day, this is a drop in the bucket, said Ray Everett-Church, the chief privacy officer of the ePrivacyGroup, a consulting company. He said that the several dozen suits against spammers so far have had no noticeable effect in deterring other spammers. Right now the big service providers see spam as a point of differentiation, Mr. Everett-Church said. And these suits are much more of a marketing campaign than an anti-spam campaign. Mr. Smith of Microsoft, however, argued that the lawsuits were an important part of a multipronged approach to fighting spam. In addition to lawsuits, Microsoft has introduced software to filter out spam for its MSN Internet access service and will include similar software in the next release of its Outlook e-mail program. Twelve of the suits filed yesterday were in state court in Washington. They brought claims under both the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and a Washington State anti-spam law. One suit was filed in California state court, and two were filed in Britain. The defendants include many different business involved in e-mail marketing. Email Gold Inc. and NetGold, both of Dayton, Ohio, are accused of using spam to sell tools for other marketers to get into the spam business. VMS Inc. and Proform4life Inc., both of Port Richey, Fla., are accused of trying to sell human growth hormone. RHC Direct of Murray, Utah, is accused of selling videotapes to enhance job hunting skills using misleading subject headers. VMS and Email Gold could not be reached for comment. Robert Caldwell, the president of RHC, denied that his firm was sending spam. All of the recipients of the messages that it sends have requested marketing material, he said. Moreover, all of the messages identify the sender's address and phone number. They could have picked up the phone to call us rather than filing a lawsuit, Mr. Caldwell said, noting that he has not had any discussions about the offending e-mail with Microsoft. All this will do is undermine the ability of legitimate marketers to stand up and say this is what we are doing. In some cases, Microsoft was not able to identify the sender of the spam. It filed several suits against unnamed John Doe defendants. That tactic allows it to use subpoenas and other techniques to try to identify the senders. Over the last nine months, Microsoft has diverted some of its investigators who normally track down software counterfeiters to tracking down spammers
re: re: Advice please re Spam. My Thanks.
I would like to thank both Ravi pbs for their time in reply. i) I may get back to you Ravi with more techno-specifics. ii) pbs: I understand when you say that the technical good advices, never seem to be 'possible' for the techno-faint-hearted! I count myself as in that category. iii) re the Palestinian thing: Indeed it is VERY worrying. They (whoever they are) have taken the names of several list-owners - including International Struggle ML (myself) a bunch of others - all ML-ist (including one - horror of horrors - termed 'Stalinist') used their list-owners as the perpetrators of some very vicious and prolific anti-Palestinian propaganda. iv) They even used the name of a (I think) a well known feminist, to disseminate a tract under her name, which was quite anti-Palestinian-women. I gather that that text did in fact originate in a real piece, that was originally signed by Andrea Dworkin. These tactics used are pretty clever - for the technologically challenged somewhat difficult to deal with. v) Of course this raises the (now-old) red-herring of the extent to which e-mail/interent organising can substitute for real-world organising. Of course it cannot. Nor do the proponents of using it for progressive causes have any such illusions about it. Nonetheless, - for me at any rate, this little episode shows one limitation of virtual class war versus real world organising for class war. Cheers - once more my thanks to Ravi to pbs - I will probably be in touch shortly. Hari
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Rob Many thanks for your detailed news round-up. In asking several questions I didn't expect the lowdown on each and every one, though pleased to have got it. You mentioned: East Timor is an ex-story. This is a little puzzling, and significantly more worrying, given the role being played by Gareth Evans in his International Crisis Group hat (the skinny on this outfit would be useful). His negotiation of the infamous Timor Gap Treaty hardly qualifies him to be an impartial administrator or whatever of the territory whose assets he now presides over. A while back in either the Guardian or FT there was a very good article that managed to slip out describing the alarm felt in Australian government circles that the East Timorese would want more than the measly amount assigned to them in the original treaty (ungrateful b*!ards). You continued: Since John Howard pronounced that Oz saw itself as Uncle Sam's deputy in the region, the Indonesian population and Malaysia's leadership (for two) have correctly discerned that our foreign policy is still of the 'white man's burden' variety. We've recently upped the ante by announcing a major sustained military budget increase (the Defense people used to argue they needed money because there was nothing more dangerous than a united Indonesia; now they're getting money because there's nothing more dangerous than a fragmenting Indonesia), and a new regional arms race is likely to raise temperature and take food out of mouths. Australia is, in short, more on the nose in the region than it has been for a decade. = So how does this fit in with Dubya's trans-Pacific sabre-rattling? Does Howard really want to get involved in that? = Any views on the recent Vietnamese CP Congress? Well, nothing in the media here (of course), but it seems delegates are pretty free to speak. Lots of pronouncements about the Party having to review its structure (endemic corruption, arrogance of the security branches, non-representative and advanced age of cadres and executives, bureaucracy trumping compassion etc); some general comments about restructuring an education system to meet the challenges and derive the benefits of this 'information-age' thingy everyone else has been on about (if not edifying about) for fifteen years; and a lot of stuff about dangerously lapsing Party and public morality. All apparently very general, but perhaps indicative of some profound self critique and some new broom measures. Still confidently statist-commie stuff on the whole, though. Does that fit your take, Michael? = Quite a lot in the FT about it, including a typically sneering aside by its piss-poor Observer diarist. Mostly positive about the change, although also even managing to acknowledge the unimpeachability of the departing Le Kha Phieu. He is even quoted in one article stating the need for greater support for private enterprise, and faster economic development to speed growth. The statist-commie stuff didn't feature, other than the gratuitous digs and references to departing dinosaurs, etc. Nothing at all in the Guardian about it, it seems. Hopefully some outlet like Monthly Review will pick something up. Keep on keeping on, Michael K.
Re: Parochialism and spam
Hi again Michael, So how does this fit in with Dubya's trans-Pacific sabre-rattling? Does Howard really want to get involved in that? Yep, and he is involved. He's playing his self-appointed role as unpaid deputy to the embarrassing hilt, enjoying a very public slanging match with Beijing as I write. http://www.abc.net.au/am/s283994.htm This is a transcript of AM broadcast at 0800 AEST on local radio. Australia drawn into US/China rift AM - Friday, April 27, 2001 8:00 LINDA MOTTRAM: Good morning. This is AM. Im Linda Mottram. Australia has been drawn into the escalating tension between China and the United States. The Chinese Embassy has told AM that comments the Prime Minister John Howard made on this program yesterday were inappropriate, and confused right and wrong. China correspondent Tom OByrne reports: TOM OBYRNE: Its becoming a familiar scene in an increasingly testy relationship between China and the United States. This time theres anger and concern in Beijing about President George W. Bush talking of defending Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack. A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says China is deeply concerned, not only over the Presidents remarks, but the road the Syno-American relationship is taking. She said Taiwan remains Chinese territory and not anyones protectorate; a point that was well known to the United States. Already smarting over the Taiwan arms sales decision earlier in the week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned the US Ambassador to Beijing for the second time in as many days to register its protest. And in a warning to other countries, including Australia, the Chinese government says it will take the same view about those hoping to sell weapons technology to Taiwan as it does about the US sale. Germany and the Netherlands have been tipped as a possible source of conventional submarines for Taiwan as part of the US package. Chinese state-run television overnight was giving prominence to denials from both governments that any such sales were planned. The Australian Prime Minister meanwhile thought he was being cautious when commenting on yesterdays AM program on the latest US-China rift: JOHN HOWARD: Well, I understand and Im sure China and the world understands the United States position in relation to Taiwan. Its a fairly long held position. And its not surprising that it should be re-stated by the new president. From our point of view, we urge calm and restraint on everybody. We dont want to see any aggression by China against Taiwan. We dont want to see any wider tension escalate between the United States and China. So from out point of view we would like calm and restraint on all sides. REPORTER: Youre happy that President George Bush understands the regional tensions and is fully across how sensitive... JOHN HOWARD: Im sure he is. I think hes made a very impressive start. TOM OBYRNE: But the Chinese Embassy in Canberra considers the remarks inappropriate and confusing right with wrong. REN XIAOPING: We think that the Taiwan question is the internal affairs of China. Any foreign country - no foreign country should make inappropriate remarks on this question. At the moment Syno-American relations are at a very sensitive and complicated period of time. And we think that Prime Minister John Howards remarks are very inappropriate, which confuses right and wrong. So the Chinese Embassy are not happy about this. China and Australian are friendly countries. And we hope that the Australian government will do more things that would be beneficial to the development of the friendly relations between China and Australia. LINDA MOTTRAM: A spokeswoman for Chinas embassy in Canberra, Ren Xiaoping.
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Rob Schaap wrote: So I've given up saying things about Oz, as it tends to make one feel like a spammer at worst and keeps one out of the conversation at best. There's probably nothing to be done about this, but there it is. = Cease thy muteness at once, comrade. Be resolute and unflinching. Do not kowtow to the imperialist running dogs. I was, am, and will be interested in what you have to say about Oz. The Gough Whitlam stuff you sent a while back is important, as is any material or thoughts on the present resurgence of One Nation, the apparent emergence of the Greens, and whatever remains of progressive politics within Labor. What's going on in East Timor? Is the Keating attempt to forge closer SE Asian ties (as opposed to Robert Conquest-type it'll be all white on the night international relations) still a goer? Any views on the recent Vietnamese CP Congress? What about the maverick new leader of the Liberal Democrats in Japan? What about it, Rob? Michael K.
Re: Parochialism and spam
Rob Schaap wrote: So I've given up saying things about Oz, as it tends to make one feel like a spammer at worst and keeps one out of the conversation at best. There's probably nothing to be done about this, but there it is. Michael Keaney writes: Cease thy muteness at once, comrade. Be resolute and unflinching. Do not kowtow to the imperialist running dogs. I totally agree. I love your stuff about Oz (even if I have a hard time reading it sometimes; I flunked Australian as a second language). Just because people don't reply very much doesn't mean you should shut up. I, for one, don't reply because I'm totally ignorant of the subject matter. I seem to get away with talking about a lot of stuff I don't know anything about, but that's because I dealing with students most of the time. ;-) Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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G'day Pen-pals, I was, am, and will be interested in what you have to say about Oz. The Gough Whitlam stuff you sent a while back is important, as is any material or thoughts on the present resurgence of One Nation, the apparent emergence of the Greens, and whatever remains of progressive politics within Labor. One Nation is doing well just now, mainly because the major parties are undergoing a real and thoroughly deserved legitimation crisis, and Australians (who are legally obliged to vote) can but express their contempt by voting for anyone who offers antiglobalisation sentiments. And that's the problem One Nation has - it's a reactionary unit based on the rural petit-bourgoisie (and, after oil price rises and the introduction of a margin-narrowing, paper-work-multiplying goods'n'services tax last July, increasing chunks of the suburban petit-bourgoisie) and it's a nationalist-statist-small cappo denial of 'globalism' as a whole. It makes demands of the state that can no longer be met; pushes an abstract 'personal-responsibility' egalitarian liberalism that denies class/ethnic/cultural/gender inequities (eg 'blaming the victim' stuff such that charges of racism, for instance, are easy to level at 'em); pushes a 'those were the days' sentimentalism; and depends entirely on the persona of the inarticulate, often hysterical but strangely likeable Pauline Hanson. Anyway, One Nation is getting support from across the spectrum (the disillusioned are everywhere, after all) and has a real shot at a producing a couple of senators - which may be enough to carry the balance in the next senate. A worry, as the nationalism is xenophobic and effectively racist, the liberalism is one of judgement rather than emancipation; the social ideals are fifty years out of date, and Hanson just hasn't the mental ammo to resist opportunistic radical rightist agendas or go beyond feeding discontent. A national vote of around six per cent, with local spikes in Queensland, seems their electoral limit. But they are having an effect on the political culture, as the media find Hanson irresistable, and we have to have debates we thought we'd put away years ago. Capital is cross with 'em, because the media coverage gets picked up in the region, and our current and prospective SE Asian trading partners are having their suspicions regarding Australian whitism confirmed. The Greens are where the left goes these days, even though they still haven't anything like a class-conscious electoral politics or social policy. Again, we're just talking a 'somewhere to go' option for the disillusioned uni student or graduate. The Greens have benefitted from the traditional 'third force' (the Australian Democrats) being seen as too close to the conservative government. The latter have a glamorous new leader now, but I reckon the Greens could get a senator or two in at the elections, too. The Bush turnaround, local salinity crises, and Queensland land clearance orgies have combined to make an expressly green politics pretty trendy, so I think The Greens'll maintain their presence for the foreseeable future. What comes of it all really depends on who the successful candidates are, as Green candidates are a diverse lot. A five per cent electoral presence seems a realistic expectation, and that could be enough to get one or two across the line. What's going on in East Timor? Local discontent as to the tight reins the UN is keeping on local aspirations. The liberation looks more like a new domination every day, and the top-down development programme is predictably stalling. The media is saying nothing. East Timor is an ex-story. Is the Keating attempt to forge closer SE Asian ties (as opposed to Robert Conquest-type it'll be all white on the night internationalrelations) still a goer? Since John Howard pronounced that Oz saw itself as Uncle Sam's deputy in the region, the Indonesian population and Malaysia's leadership (for two) have correctly discerned that our foreign policy is still of the 'white man's burden' variety. We've recently upped the ante by announcing a major sustained military budget increase (the Defense people used to argue they needed money because there was nothing more dangerous than a united Indonesia; now they're getting money because there's nothing more dangerous than a fragmenting Indonesia), and a new regional arms race is likely to raise temperature and take food out of mouths. Australia is, in short, more on the nose in the region than it has been for a decade. Any views on the recent Vietnamese CP Congress? Well, nothing in the media here (of course), but it seems delegates are pretty free to speak. Lots of pronouncements about the Party having to review its structure (endemic corruption, arrogance of the security branches, non-representative and advanced age of cadres and executives, bureaucracy trumping compassion etc); some general comments about restructuring an education system
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Spam., steve On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is this debate about? Michael, the debate is as follows... Still, religion has inspired great generosity and positive heroism in others. thanks god for his generosity! then go and register to a biology course in Kansas! Mine evolution was dropped from the cirriculum of public schools by the State Board of Education in Kansas. i think it was last august or so... Mine -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901
[PEN-L:11557] EPI Budget Spam
The following, including tables, can be downloaded from our web site at epinet.org mbs September 22, 1999 Issue Brief #134 Social Investment and the Budget Debate by Jeff Faux and Max Sawicky Budget politics in America have become a two-legged stool. While congressional Republicans and administration Democrats argue over the size of tax cuts and debt reduction, the third leg of budget policy social investment remains too short, imperiling future economic and social stability. Indeed, the recent 10-year budget plans advanced by the leadership of both parties would require substantial cuts in public investment and social services in order to finance tax cuts. But however this years budget is patched together, both sides proposals signal an intention to continue with the unbalanced budget priorities of the past 20 years. Surplus illusions The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has projected total budget surpluses of $2,896 billion over the next decade, of which $1,899 billion will come from the expected surplus in the off-budget Social Security program, and $997 billion will come from on-budget revenues and programs (Table 1). Both sides have proposed to lock up the projected Social Security surplus by using it to pay down the national debt, thus precluding a debate on using that surplus for public investment or other purposes. It is widely assumed that the non-Social Security surplus is available for tax cuts, new spending, or even further deficit reduction. But where would that $997 billion surplus really come from? The source of more than 90% of that surplus actually comes from plans to reduce the current level of federal government services, ranging from meat and poultry inspection to educating children in Head Start. Part of the confusion lies in the misleading use by both Congress and the Clinton Administration of spending numbers automatically capped by the provisions of the 1997 budget agreement. These numbers, which appear as baselines in the budget documents, do not represent a stable level of funding but rather reductions in real spending below what is necessary to maintain the current level of public services. The current services budget shown in Table 2 displays a more realistic estimate of spending needed to keep programs operating at their 1999 levels. It is a conservative estimate in that it reflects only expected price changes and not population growth or the increased public investments in human and physical capital needed to support future growth in a more competitive global economy. As Table 2 shows, within the discretionary spending category, nondefense spending absorbs virtually all of the proposed reductions the Clinton 10-year budget proposes a slight increase in military spending over current levels, while the Republicans budget proposes a slightly lower level. In either case, it is nondefense spending that will be cut. Over the 10-year period in question, the Republican budget would reduce nondefense discretionary spending by 20.1% overall, with the cuts reaching almost 28.6% by fiscal year 2009. The Clinton budget also cuts the nondefense discretionary budget, by almost 12.8% in 2009 and over 6.4% overall for the decade. To complicate matters, the Clinton budget proposal assumes that some domestic spending can be maintained with a series of offsets (e.g., superfund tax increase, takeback of tobacco tax revenues from states, increased user fees), whose passage is at best problematic. If those offsets are denied by Congress, and the spending therefore correspondingly reduced, the cuts in current services in Clintons budget could be as much as 50% higher than the overall 6.4% projected. Table 2 shows that the difference between the capped and the current services budget is $595 billion over 10 years. But, as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has pointed out, the shortfall is actually much greater for two reasons. First, there will be higher interest costs associated with the higher spending needed to close the gap. Second, the shortfall is greater as a result of the pattern in the 1990s of not budgeting for necessary programs (e.g., the Census), which then get funded as emergencies. These and other items could add roughly another $290 billion to the gap between the CBO projections and the money needed to maintain current services, eating up almost 90% of the projected non-Social Security surplus. [1] Shrinking social investments Since the exact composition of discretionary spending cuts is decided in the annual appropriations process, it is not yet certain where the cuts will be made. Clintons Office of Management and Budget (OMB), however, has provided some clues. In August 1999, the OMB estimated that the Republican budget, which calls for a tax cut of $792 billion over 10
[PEN-L:6777] spam +
Doug Henwood wrote: At 10:14 AM 10/19/96, SHAWGI TELL wrote: ..yet another diatribe. Shawgi Tell, if you made some effort to converse with the people on the lists you post these screeds to I might feel a little different about them. But as it is, it just reads like spams. One tedious pronunciamento after another. Please stop it. I agree *completely* -- and I will add here that having to constantly delete Shawgi's spam is both time-consuming and annoying. So ... Doug: how do you define and measure surplus value? Your pest, Jerry
