Vandaag kwam ik een 'interessant' E-mailbericht tegen in mijn mailaccount:
| quote "Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam": |
| 10 Complaints (of OVER 750 to be Released) From ANGRY Individuals That Have Received UNSOLICITED ILLEGAL SPAM FROM MICROSOFT
All Quotes Posted to Archives of Newsgroup: news.admin.net-abuse.email 1- "More and more, it seems that Microsoft has harvested addresses in its database. They spammed me, and I also never gave them my address. " - Trebor 2- "I got a completely unsolicited SPAM from microsoft, pitching its new Office for the Mac. I have never signed up for any Microsoft opt-in list, and I have never used my email address when registering a Microsoft product" - Charles Eicher 4- "Does anyone know what the deal is with all this stuff from Microsoft? I get at least 20 150K messages with attachments a day. I can filter them, but this is a huge waste of net resources." - Van Jacques 5- "I recently received a spam from Microsoft, despite my every effort to avoid their system. I own no MS products, I have never given them my email address, nor consented to be put on their marketing mailing lists. Headers clearly indicate the spam as originating from a Microsoft server." - Charles Eicher 6- "I just got a spam advertising Microsoft bCentral that was apparently sent through a domain calling itself customer-email.com (located in Seattle). The spam had a number of links that point to http://redir.cq0.net/r/default.asp?R=000006786000e31bf which simply performs a redirect to http://www.bcentral.com which is a Microsoft domain." - Bruce Pennypacker 7- "The headers indicate that it actually came from Microsoft. This is absolutely believable given their lengthy and well-documented history of spamming." - Bill Cole 8- "I'm talking about Microsoft spamming Mac users, and the big question is, how did they acquire these email addresses?" - Charles Eicher 9- "I never get any mail from microsoft as I always click their "never email me" boxes on anything I fill in of theirs. But today they decide to spam me twice, including this one to a slightly faulty email address, how they got that address I will never know." - Steve Peake 10- "I got 3 copies of the same Spam (in an attached word document) from MS Israel. I called them up, they admitted they sent the Spam, refused to acknowledge that Spam is bad" - Shoshannah Forbes
-> MICROSOFT SENDS ILLEGAL UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL SPAM <- OUR MISSION: Worldwide Boycott of MICROSOFT Software / Hardware / Service SHOW YOUR SUPPORT: "Don't Support Illegal Spam, DON'T BUY ANYTHING MICROSOFT" OUR GOAL: 100 Billion Views / 99.9% Internet Saturation / 178 Parts (2005-2007) [SPAMIS Foundation: Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam] ----- ---- --- -- - - QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE PUBLIC STATEMENTS FROM MICROSOFT: SPAMIS EXISTS DUE TO THE IMPROPER, UNPROFESSIONAL, RUDE, CHILDISH AND UNETHICAL VERBAL AND WRITTEN ACTIONS OF ROBERT J. DIEZELAK OF LAW FIRM: [Part 18 of 178] |
Dit is allemaal heel leuk en aardig, maar:
- Ik heb nog nooit spam mogen ontvangen van Microsoft zelf;
- Ik heb mij nooit opgegeven voor deze maillijst van SPAMIS.
Dit bericht is geen opt-in, waarbij een persoon zich opgeeft om dit soort berichten te ontvangen. Ook is er geen unsubscribe mogelijkheid. Dit maakt dit bericht UBE (Unsolicited Bulk E-mail) aka SPAM, volgens de richtlijnen van MAPS en RFC 3098.
Dus dit bericht is een beetje de pot verwijten dat de ketel zwart ziet. Wat het grappig maakt is de arrogante toon van het bericht dat oproept om Microsoft te boycotten omdat het bedrijf zou spammen. Dit is bijna een schoolvoorbeeld van hypocrisie.
Concluderend: haat Microsoft niet voor de verkeerde redenen. En voordat je mensen oproept voor je 'jihad' tegen het 'spammende' Microsoft, bedenk eerst hoe je zelf de massa's wilt bereiken.
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