Re: pop-ups
From: Alun Jones [MS MVP] (alun_at_texis.com)
Date: 06/21/03
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Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:06:02 GMT
In article <06a701c33739$1a4021e0$a001280a@phx.gbl>, "Barbara Terrebonne"
<terre7@comcast.net> wrote:
>We upgraded to XP and since have had annoying popups
>constantly. WHY DO YOU ALLOW THIS? They weren't there
>before we upgraded.
I suspect that you'll find this is a mere coincidence, if these are
"Messenger Service" popups. Read http://support.microsoft.com/?id=330904
for information on how to prevent these. If the popups come from Internet
Explorer, or other than "Messenger Service", then you may have accidentally
installed "spyware". The most commonly referred-to software for finding and
removing spyware from your system is Ad-Aware from http://www.lavasoft.de.
>This is internet abuse and invasion
>of privacy, not to mention a waste of my time which I
>consider valuable whether you do or not. It is absolutely
>ridiculous that you would put YOUR CUSTOMERS WHO HAVE
>PAID YOU through this. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!!
Write to your Congressman, and ask that they make unsolicited advertising on
the Internet illegal. Punish the people who take advantage of holes in your
firewall setup to push their advertising on you without your permission.
Fix the holes in your firewall, but punish the people who are doing the bad
thing. If someone spray-painted your wall with commercial slogans, you'd go
after the spray-painter, not the paint manufacturer.
>IT
>SHOULDN'T BE MY PROBLEM. BELIEVE ME, IT HAS BEEN HARD TO
>WRITE THIS NOTE WITHOUT USING FOUR LETTER WORDS!!! I'M
>NOT WAITING LONG BEFORE I TURN YOU IN FOR ABUSE. SOME OF
>THE SUBJECTS OF THESE POPUPS ARE NOT VERY PLEASANT.
I agree. Unfortunately, Congress seems to think that "Unsolicited
commercial electronic mail can be an important mechanism through which
businesses advertise and attract customers in the online environment." [HR
718, 107th Congress, "Findings of Fact"[sic](*)] Go tell your Congressmen
to write a real anti-spam bill that recognises that unsolicited advertising
is an invasion of your privacy, and an abuse of your Internet connection,
paid for by you, not the advertiser, and as such it is theft.
Obviously, these are all just recommendations based on my own opinion, but
with Congress drafting supposedly anti-spam bills that are more akin to
regulating mugging by allowing victims to say "please don't mug me again",
there's not much that can be done. Spam and its ilk are not technological
problems, they are social problems - as such, they require a social
solution, not a technological one.
As you've found out, no reputable business uses unsolicited advertising over
the Internet, as they all recognise at the very least that it is hugely
unpopular, and some even realise that it is direct theft from their
potential customers.
Alun.
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(*) Or for a more recent reference, try the "CAN-SPAM Act" [S.877], which
says in _its_ findings of fact that "Unsolicited commercial electronic mail
can be a mechanism through which businesses advertise and attract customers
in the online environment". Apparently, Congress still thinks that theft
and invasion of privacy is a valid way of advertising. They even recognise
that its theft, in other findings of fact such as "The receipt of
unsolicited commercial electronic mail may result in costs to recipients who
cannot refuse to accept such mail and who incur costs for the storage of
such mail, or for the time spent accessing, reviewing, and discarding such
mail, or for both."
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