Re: Real fix for stock spams - pick up a pen

2006-11-17 Thread Bookworm
Coffey, Neal wrote: Bookworm wrote: Pick up a pen, and write to your local congressman, or even to the SEC, and insist that they penalize those companies who are being pimped and pumped through spam emails. Why should they? The companies being advertised in the stock spams aren't

Re: Real fix for stock spams - pick up a pen

2006-11-17 Thread Bookworm
Robert Braver wrote: On Thursday, November 16, 2006, 8:00:09 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote: MS It was $500, and the law changed to make it impossible to collect MS anymore. MS Before, it was a 'first strike' and you owe $500. Now you have to 'opt MS out' (they can still send you one) Opt-out

Real fix for stock spams - pick up a pen

2006-11-16 Thread Bookworm
Pick up a pen, and write to your local congressman, or even to the SEC, and insist that they penalize those companies who are being pimped and pumped through spam emails. Today, I got one for Mobicom Communications. If that company had their chance to go public yanked, you could be sure that

Re: Real fix for stock spams - pick up a pen

2006-11-16 Thread Evan Platt
At 10:51 AM 11/16/2006, you wrote: Pick up a pen, and write to your local congressman, or even to the SEC, and insist that they penalize those companies who are being pimped and pumped through spam emails. Today, I got one for Mobicom Communications. If that company had their chance to go

Re: Real fix for stock spams - pick up a pen

2006-11-16 Thread Derek Harding
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 10:57 -0800, Evan Platt wrote: Imagine if ABC Corp is already public, and along comes XYZ, Inc, about to go public. XYZ competes with ABC. ABC hires Spammer in Foreign Country to spam for 'XYZ'. So now it looks like XYZ is spamming. The FTC crawls all over XYZ, who

RE: Real fix for stock spams - pick up a pen

2006-11-16 Thread Coffey, Neal
Bookworm wrote: Pick up a pen, and write to your local congressman, or even to the SEC, and insist that they penalize those companies who are being pimped and pumped through spam emails. Why should they? The companies being advertised in the stock spams aren't responsible. In fact, a good

Re: Real fix for stock spams - pick up a pen

2006-11-16 Thread Michael Clark
At 12:51 PM -0600 11/16/06, Bookworm wrote: Pick up a pen, and write to your local congressman, or even to the SEC, and insist that they penalize those companies who are being pimped and pumped through spam emails. Today, I got one for Mobicom Communications. If that company had their chance

RE: Real fix for stock spams - pick up a pen

2006-11-16 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: Bookworm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:52 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Real fix for stock spams - pick up a pen Pick up a pen, and write to your local congressman, or even to the SEC, and insist

Re[2]: Real fix for stock spams - pick up a pen

2006-11-16 Thread Robert Braver
On Thursday, November 16, 2006, 8:00:09 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote: MS It was $500, and the law changed to make it impossible to collect MS anymore. MS Before, it was a 'first strike' and you owe $500. Now you have to 'opt MS out' (they can still send you one) Opt-out applies only if there is