[thelist] Re: Microsoft Security Notices: A Double Standard on Spam?
Kevin Martin
evolt at brasscannon.net
Wed Aug 13 15:57:54 CDT 2003
Says here that Arthur Cundy <barnabas311 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> To get the message out about the DCOM vulnerability, Microsoft
> turned to a surprising partner -- known bulk e-mailer Digital
> Impact.
Oh, come on. When you need to reach 3 million people quickly,
a certain amount of "bulk" is going to be involved. But was
it unsolicited? It was supposed to go to Microsoft partners,
MSDN members, and registered customers.
Thing is, people show a shocking lack of imagination and
consideration for domain owners when making up "throwaway"
names -- for instance, I pity the owner of dropdead.com.
So yes, I can see people who didn't really sign up getting
the notice. In that case, getting them off the list would
be a good thing.
> Even worse, we uncovered some serious flaws in that mail-blast,
> including violations of Microsoft's own policies, and
> surreptitious tracking of users.
So Microsoft shouldn't ever take invalid and undeliverable
addresses off their lists. Uh, yeah. Okay. Damned if
they do, damned if they don't. Got it.
> Why is Microsoft consorting with Sp at m vendors?
<tip type="Leave evolt out of it">
If YOU got a notice from microsoft.m0.net and it was not sent
to an address that YOU gave Microsoft, you can forward it to
their ISP -- in this case, that would be abuse at globix.com.
</tip>
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