MySpace Spam?

Christopher Smith — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:34:00 -0700

It appears that my ongoing e-mail identity problems have continued to my new work account. I’ve got a reasonably cool, but terse, username (I tried for a one letter one, but apparently those are reserved for people who are cooler than me). I thought I would get away from the whole e-mail address mess with this account because it was no longer a “smith” based account id. How foolish was I?

So, now the new thing appears to be some bozo trying to create a MySpace page account thinks that they know their e-mail address. I will give MySpace the thumbs up for at least sending a confirmation e-mail, but their cancellation process is tedious to say the least. I have to click a link, which then promptly says: “you need to login”. I login. I am them asked to enter a comment and click on one of two buttons. Click on the wrong one and the account doesn’t get canceled. I then get a confirmation e-mail for the cancelation. I click on a link in that e-mail, which takes me to another page which asks me to type in my e-mail address and then once again I have to click on one of two buttons to get the account canceled. I kind of appreciate the caution in their process, but given that they haven’t even received a confirmation of the e-mail address yet, isn’t that a bit too much?

Oh, and the best part: it takes up to 48-hours to delete the account. I started the delete process on one account and was about one hour in before another account was created with my e-mail address. At this point I’m starting to wonder if the best solution is for me to create my own MySpace account with my e-mail address in hopes that this will lock out other attempts to use my e-mail address.

Despite the best efforts of anti-spam software, e-mail is precipitously close to going the way of USENET.

John McCain's Campaign Are A Bunch Of Pirates

Christopher Smith — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:07:00 -0700

It’s really hard to say much about this beyond: wow, that’ll teach ‘em. It does go to show how easily one can accidentally run afoul of IP law.

Is it just me, or is John McCain’s 2008 campaign starting off just horribly (and oddly quite the opposite of his 2000 campaign)?

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MySpace Spam?

John McCain's Campaign Are A Bunch Of Pirates