[geeks] Patents vs. spam

[Kevin]

AT&T has been implicated with knowingly supplying net access to
spammers in the past.

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-248067.html?legacy=cnet
http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/11/08/001108hnspam.xml

/KRM

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:29:57 +0100
Joost van de Griek <joost at jvdg.net> wrote:

> On 2003-11-20 06:25, wa2egp at att.net wrote:
> 
> >> "SiliconValley.com's Dan Gillmor speculates that AT&T might have
> >nobler> motives. By patenting techniques for bypassing spam
> >filters, AT&T can sue> spammers for using such techniques; but he
> >rejects this idea on the grounds> that spammers are hardly going
> >to throw in the towel because of a little> legal difficulty."
> >
> > Now I find that amusing since I've been fighting a company that
> > plants a trojan horse in a computer which will call a porn
> > website for $5/minute without your knowledge or connects your
> > machine to a number in Africa.  With the latter, the long distanc
> > carrier gets a piece of the action and AT&T seems to be getting
> > the biggest piece of the action among all of the carriers from
> > what I've read.  (Sigh)  Things never seem to change....
> 
> True, but those things make money for them; spam probably costs
> them money, since they're one of the parties that are burdened with
> trafficking all that unsolicited junkmail around the internet.
> 
> It may seem a noble motive, but it probably just comes down to the
> bottom line, as per usual.
> 
> ,xtG
> .tsooJ
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> Joost van de Griek
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