Re: Re: Water tight opt-in (yet another FUSSP)

This whole thing seems to me like a solution in search of a problem.   I 
don't believe that most ISPs want to serve as intermediaries between 
their users and (legitimate, at least) list services.

I've been involved with (say) Yahoogroups for more than ten years. You 
subscribe, you get an e-mailed confirmation request, you reply to that 
by e-mail, and you're in.  You unsubscribe either at the website, or 
with an e-mail message (again, confirmed).  Just not a problem.

I'm far more annoyed at bogus spam e-mails (and junk faxes, already 
illegal, but that's a separate issue), which are either hawking stuff I 
don't really want, or (increasingly) are malicious lures trying to get 
me to open a malicious attachment, or go to a malicious website which 
would doubtless infect my computer.

Those of us that use Thunderbird mail client software, in the case of 
prolific repeating list services and companies that don't respect 
unsubscribe requests, it's easy enough to set up a mail filter rule that 
just t-cans all incoming mail from that address or domain. Agreed that 
the bandwidth still gets wasted, but I'm not convinced at this point 
that it's material, compared to much bulkier stuff (streaming video, 
high-res photos, etc) which occupy probably a lot more of the total.

Personally, I'm getting increasingly more concerned about CryptoLocker 
and its ilk, and its implications for the new year 2014.  I suppose it's 
easy enough to just say that it's going to be a Darwinian thing which 
will discourage the terminally clueless types (but there are a LOT of 
those, still) and tend to make them abandon the PC/Windows platform, but 
of course that's not a long-term solution, because the malware guys will 
just move to iOS or Android or whatever the new vulnerable platform is.

I'm also concerned about some of these types of malware getting loose in 
cloud services, and starting to spread (infection, or even just damage) 
that way.

Speaking about probably-malicious spam, does anybody here know WTF is 
the deal with all the wildly divergent (but similar-looking, often) spam 
e-mails with links to unknown/suspicious websites, where the link URL 
contains a lot of long numbers, garbled vaguely-relevant word fragments, 
and incoherent quasi-random punctuation?   I've gotten a lot of them 
about wood project plans, political lures, and all other sorts of 
stuff.  Anybody know what the deal is with those?



On 12/29/2013 4:20 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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