Ain't My Bitch

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/metallica-consi.html

Good old Lars is back-tracking on all that music for free stuff seeing as how Trent made a buttload of money giving some music away for free, and it looks like they might want to hose Warner Bros. on their last Metallica recording.

"But then God told me, he's like ..."

I've always wondered how people are able to determine what god's will is.

For example, apparently god saved people last night from further serious injury, according to those injured

'Angels' prevented deaths, more injuries: concert-goer


OK. Or maybe this 'god' fellow caused the collapse because he, like everyone else is a critic and he thinks that Starfield sucks?

"God was totally around the building, that's why no one died, because God was protecting everyone," she said. "He had his angels around us." - Bethany Blois, injured person with bad musical taste.

Ok, Bethany. We get that you like god and all, but I think you have to stop making excuses for random occurrences. The floor collapsed, you only fell 10 feet. Sucks, but coulda been a lot worse. As for god, I'm told by the voices in my head he was over at the Pestilence show, head banging. He's vengeful, according to some.

Hysterical Phish/419 something

So they are trying brow-beating as a tactic now? Wow.

NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT VIA ATM CARD

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not received your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your payment.

Secondly, you are hereby advised to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank and some of Attorney as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately.After the Board of director's meeting held in Abuja, we have resolved in finding a solution to your problem. We have arranged your payment through our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe, America, Africa and Asia Pacific;this is part of an instruction/mandate passed by the Senate in respect to overseas contract payment and debt re-scheduling.

We will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw your money via ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, and the maximum daily limit is Fifteen Thousand United States Dollars ($15,000.00) If you like to receive your fund this way, kindly reconfirm your



(1) Your Full Name

(2) Full residential address.

(3) Phone and Direct mobile Number

We shall be expecting to receive your information as you have to stop any further communication with anybody or office.I repeat again here that you are receiving this money due to we haveverified your file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not received your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your payment from bank, remember this IS not credit card which you will pay back later, you don't have to pay back we have already loaded your fund in to the ATM CARD.


Best Regards,

Dr Andrew Hall

Spam from Quebec Green Party Candidate Peter McQueen mcqueenp@videotron.ca

Apparently even greens hold themselves above the law. Peter McQueen mcqueenp@videotron.ca apparently thinks his political views are so important, it is OK to add addresses to a mailing list without permission, and ignore repeated requests to be removed from the list.

Appropriate LART sent to Videotron. And McQueen. And The Green Party. One more time and it goes to a PIPEDA complaint.

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On April 6, he spammed me again:



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He once again spammed me today, April 21:


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Aux membres et amis de la Coalition Verte

Soirée d'information, le Jeudi 24 avril prochain

Dans l'objectif de lancer officiellement le mouvement concerté Droit de passage vert, plusieurs organismes se regroupent afin d'organiser, le 24 avril prochain, une soirée information qui traitera en premier lieu sur l'avenir de la falaise Saint-Jacques et du terrain de golf Meadowbrook face à des projets risquant de les détruire ou de compromettre leurs usages.

Venez donc en grand nombre à 19h au centre communautaire MUNGED demander votre droit de passage vert.

Téléphone: MUNGED



Information Town Hall, Thursday April 24th, 2008 Green right of way will be holding its founding meeting the 24th of April at 7PM at the MUNGED

Several grass roots community groups have come out in support of this effort. The main focus of discussion will be the future conservation of the St. Jacques Escarpment, Meadowbrook Golf Course and their integration into a greater greenbelt in Southwestern Montreal.

For more information please contact: Green right of way at MUNGED

Spammed by Gizmo (and Gizmodo)

Check out Josh Baer's making note of how and why you get spammed, apparently every time anyone signs up for Gizmodo.

Oh wait, no, not Gizmodo, Gizmo. A friend signed up for that silly useless thing and they spammed her. Oh well. Everybody sucks I guess.

I'd suggest not signing up for Gizmo until they stop crappy marketing like this. Or Gizmodo either, for that matter.

We bad, we bad. Canada to get a Spam Law

Scuttlebutt around Ottawa is the current conservative-lead minority government is seriously considering tabling a spam law in the House of Commons before the summer break. More on this as it develops, over on the CAUCE website.

Scotiabank Needs both a New Marketing & Technical Team. Or not.

April 18, I receive a mail from Scotiabank, touting a contest running April 1 to May 1, 2008.

Dear Valued Customer,

ScotiaBank and ScotiaBankPlace.Com is very happy to announce a new Try It And Win! contest, for its customers.

In order to take part in this contest you are required to be have a Scotia Bank OnLine Services user, meaning you have to already have or if not to activate your Scotia Online account.

The contest will take place between the 1st of April 2008, and the 1st of May 2008. The contest winners list is updated weekly on our web site. There are no registration fees, or any other fees for joining our contest except the above condition.
For more information about it, please click on the link below.

Try It And Win!

Thank you,
ScotiaBank & ScotiaBankPlace.com

Here is a snipurl version of their link

http://snurl.com/24yzx [www2_scotiabankplace_com]

I clicked it. Here's what I got:




So i clicked Ok, which is a really really bad thing to do when your banks otensible cert is from The Ottawa Senators. just saying, fine hockey, bad to have a hockey site show up when I am doing some banking.

And here is a shot of the landing page. Boggle.





My old friend John Levine & I consulted with Scotiabank back in the day, we did a lunch & learn. Apparently too much lunch, too little learn.

or maybe it is a phish? It seems to have originated from 66.187.148.197 which is somewhere in Pennsylvania.

In Support of The Spamhaus Project

A letter to the editor sent to Ken Magill of Direct News / Magilla Marketing


Ken,

Thank-you for your April 1 column 'Anonymous Group Takes Aim at Spamhaus', it is no joke.

Consider for a moment what the circumstance for the email world would be, were the people behind Online Marketing Advocacy Group to be successful in putting The Spamhaus Project out of business.

Literally hundreds of millions of user inboxes would be left unprotected. Spam would flow, unabated, into them. How then, would users react? I imagine a goodly portion of them would simply give up on the medium. We have already seen evidence of users either migrating to social networking closed gardens or dumping email altogether, how much more tempting will these alternates be in such a world?

ISPs would scramble to put other measures into place, using DNSBLs far more draconian those of Spamhaus.

Legitimate marketers will be severely affected, with a far, far lessened ability to get their messages delivered, or actually seen, amidst the blizzard of spam.

Is a listing on Spamhaus onerous enough to sue the company out of existence? I imagine it must be for some of the highest degree of frustration to be listed at Spamhaus. However, in both my personal and professional life I have never experienced anything but professionalism and ease of use with their products. The clients I have encountered with Spamhaus listings who made the appropriate changes were quickly delisted, plain and simple as that.

I expect of the tens of thousands of legitimate marketers who are not listed at present, some may have had some unfortunate intersection with Spamhaus, and had to change their practices. At present, they are humming along happily. To them I ask - do you like getting your mail to the inbox of your subscribers? Then do not sit on your hands, and allow this pernicious, short-sighted initiative to move forward an inch without a challenge:

Contribute to Spamhaus in any way possible; they surely have a legal defense fund to fight against this spurious attack, pony up some money!

Strictly follow industry guidelines - the Messaging Anti-abuse Working Group has several available through their website (including a terrific new paper on email authentication, check it out - all these documents have been developed with the full participation of senders, receivers, CAUCE and Spamhaus associates.

Agitate in industry associations like the DMA and ESPC to very publicly voice and undertake initiatives against the actions of the cowardly Online Marketing Advocacy Group and indeed for The Spamhaus Project. This may cause some internal pain to these groups. It is my understanding that some of their members, in fact, very vocal members are the main supporters of this attack-dog group. Take a stance, divest yourselves of these sectors of the industry that do nobody any good, far least, the ever-loving recipient of email

Be forewarned, if you don't take an active stance now, today, and these vile back-room people are successful, you will doubtlessly wish you had done so. It will hurt your business, and in these business climes, I'd say that in and of itself is a very brave stance indeed. Good luck with that.

--
Neil Schwartzman
Executive Director
CAUCE: The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email

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