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| One Spam Twit Takes Down the 50,000 Member Instant Buzz System | Views: 621 |
| Jun 03, 2005 7:54 pm | | One Spam Twit Takes Down the 50,000 Member Instant Buzz System | # |
Garland Coulson | | Like many Instant Buzz users, I noticed that their site and system was down
the last few days. Napoleon Jones of this group sent me a private
message mentioning that their site was shut down by the FCC because of spam.
Apparently one member of Instant Buzz sent out a bunch of spam to promote the
service. The owners NEVER spammed anyone and have strict policies against
spamming, but one silly twit took down an advertising system used by over 50,000
people.
Here is an interesting blog article about this called
"Don't Be Like Mike." Even though the owners paid the fine levied, it
may take up to 10 days for the site to be back up.
This has interesting ramifications for those people with affiliate programs.
What if one of your affiliates gets over eager and does the same thing? I
wonder if they would have shut down Amazon or eBay if one of their affiliates
had spammed this way or if larger, well known companies are treated differently.
Garland
Coulson, "The E-Business Tutor"
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| Jun 03, 2005 11:09 pm | | re: One Spam Twit Takes Down the 50,000 Member Instant Buzz System | # |
Kurt Schweitzer | | I suspect there are different rules depending on how much you either pay your lawyers or contribute to political parties.
I've been wondering about Pfizer (maker of that "little blue friend" that I won't name for fear of this post triggering a spam blocker) for a long time now. Nearly half of the spam in my Junk folder is pushing their product. How do they get away with it?
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| Jun 04, 2005 2:24 am | | re: re: One Spam Twit Takes Down the 50,000 Member Instant Buzz System | # |
femmequity | | I would assume Pfizer gets away with that because the FCC knows they are not the one sending those billion annoying emails about the little blue pill. It's those fly by night online pharmacies. Once it's out of Pfizer's door, they probably cease to be responsible. And most of these so-called "pharmaices" are not even in the U.S., so they are probably untouchable. There's very little we can do to stop international spammers, I would imagine. Private Reply to femmequity |
| Jun 04, 2005 3:54 am | | re: re: re: One Spam Twit Takes Down the 50,000 Member Instant Buzz System | # |
Russ Howard | | Heck, not much is done to stop domestic spammers, let alone international ones.
Russ Howard
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| Jun 04, 2005 6:51 pm | | re: One Spam Twit Takes Down the 50,000 Member Instant Buzz System | # |
Julia Kornegay | | Hi Garland,
Thank for letting use know. I hope it is only 10 days. One person did all of this. The FCC is not that buse.
I know you would no what happen to InstantBuzz. I was going to ask,anser was alredy her. And I no my spell is a little bad.
Thank you,
Julia A. Kornegay
http://www.jakornegay.com
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| Jun 04, 2005 7:47 pm | | re: One Spam Twit Takes Down the 50,000 Member Instant Buzz System | # |
Roger Abraham | | Hi Garland
There is a very well written article on what happened to IB at this site. http://www.sykaroinsights.com/archive/volume5issue5.html scroll down about half way.
btw, I don't use IB. Dropped it when they started that new ads at the top thing. I hate that.
Roger Abraham
Tillsonburg,
ON CanadaPrivate Reply to Roger Abraham |
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