[SPAM] [SDBUG] Yahoo! News Story - Irritated by spam? Get readyfor spit

[Paul Bench]

I second that.

Thank you.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremiah Gowdy [mailto:jeremiah at freedomvoice.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:31 AM
> To: Hostmaster at Video2Video.Com; sdbug at sdbug.org
> Subject: Re: [SPAM] [SDBUG] Yahoo! News Story - Irritated by spam? Get
> readyfor spit
> 
> 
> Yahoo! News - Irritated by spam? Get ready for spitFor the 
> love of god, I 
> get enough HTML trash mail, thank you.
> 
> I'm sure everyone here reads Google News or Yahoo News, no 
> need to spam us.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Yahoo! News
> To: sdbug at sdbug.org
> Cc: Hostmaster at Video2Video.Com
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:03 AM
> Subject: [SPAM] [SDBUG] Yahoo! News Story - Irritated by 
> spam? Get ready for 
> spit
> 
> 
> Peter Leftwich (Hostmaster at Video2Video.Com) has sent you a 
> news article. 
> (Email address has not been verified.)
> Personal message:
> At the last SDBUG meeting, we talked about Internet Telephony (VOIP).
> -Peter
> 
> Irritated by spam? Get ready for spit
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/200411
> 10/bs_usatoday/irritatedbyspamgetreadyforspit
> 
> 
> 
> Yahoo!   My Yahoo!   Mail
> Sign In
> New User? Sign Up
> News Home - Help
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Personalize News Home Page
> Yahoo! News   Wed, Nov 10, 2004  Search All NewsYahoo! News OnlyNews 
> PhotosAudio/Videofor   Advanced
> 
> 
> News Home
> Top Stories
> Elections
> U.S. National
>  Business
>    Economy
>    Stock Markets
>    Earnings
>    Personal Finance
>    Industries
>    Commentary
>    Press Releases
> Most Popular
> World
> Entertainment
> Sports
> Technology
> Politics
> Science
> Health
> Oddly Enough
> Op/Ed
> Local
> Comics
> News Photos
> Most Popular
> Weather
> Audio/Video
> Full Coverage
> 
> News Resources
> Providers
> ·Reuters
> ·AP
> ·AFP
> ·Forbes.com
> ·BusinessWeek Online
> ·USATODAY.com
> ·NewsFactor
> ·NPR
> ·FT.com
> ·Investor's Business Daily
> ·Motley Fool
> ·TheDeal.com
> ·CP
> Services
> ·News Alerts
> 
> 
> News via RSS
> Business News
> Business
> Stocks
> U.S. Economy
> Earnings
> Commentary
> Personal Finance
> 
> 
> 
> More Business | All Feeds
> 
>  Business - USATODAY.com
> 
> 
> Irritated by spam? Get ready for spit
> 
> Wed Nov 10, 7:09 AM ET Business - USATODAY.com
> 
> 
> By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY
> A new strain of spam soon could have consumers spitting mad.
> 
> .Lucent will get its $816M tax refund
> .United wants until Jan. 31 to file Chapter 11 plan
> .Delta to cut up to 6,900 jobs
> .Calgary leaves cow town image in the dust
> .Firefox ignites demand for alternative browser
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Search USATODAY.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Related Quotes
> DJIA
> NASDAQ
> S&P 500
> 10415.34
> 2038.45
> 1165.95
> +28.97
> -4.88
> +1.87
> 
> 
> 
> delayed 20 mins - disclaimer
> Quote Data provided by Reuters
> 
> 
> Snapshots
> 
> USA TODAY Snapshot
> What do we eat behind the wheel?
> More USA TODAY Snapshots
> 
> "Spit" - spam over Internet telephony - is beginning to 
> surface as more 
> people make phone calls over the Internet instead of regular 
> phone lines, 
> security experts say.
> Spit isn't much of a problem now, "But it will be," says 
> Pierce Reid at 
> Qovia, which develops products to manage voice networks.
> Marketers can program their computers to send 1,000 voice 
> messages a minute 
> over Internet-telephony technology, according to one recent 
> Qovia test, Reid 
> says. The company has filed patents for software products to 
> thwart spit.
> Web-based phone systems ensnared in spam will "trash 
> voice-mail systems," 
> says Michael Osterman, an independent Internet researcher. 
> "You can easily 
> delete 100 spam text messages. But try to weed through a 
> voice-mail system 
> filled with 100 unsolicited pitches. That's a pain."
> Internet-telephony technology is growing in popularity. It is faster, 
> cheaper and can send one message to multiple phone numbers. 
> Businesses like 
> it because they can bypass traditional phone networks 
> entirely and more 
> easily set up voice services.
> There will be nearly 1 million Internet-phone subscribers in 
> the USA this 
> year, up more than seven times from 2003, says market 
> researcher Yankee 
> Group. By 2008, the number will swell to 17.5 million. There 
> are 179 million 
> traditional phone lines and 178 million cell phones in the USA.
> The emergence of spit is just the latest incarnation of spam 
> that clogs 
> consumers' computers and cell phones with trillions of 
> messages pitching 
> Viagra and get-rich-quick schemes. "As everything gets 
> connected, there are 
> more ways to spam consumers," says Linda Beck at EarthLink. "Spam is 
> everywhere."
> Spam also is appearing on:
> . Instant messages. "Spim," or spam sent as instant messages, 
> ballooned to 
> 2billion this year - four times the amount sent in 2003. Four 
> billion are 
> expected in 2005, Ferris Research says.
> . Cell phones. One-fifth of U.S. adults said they received commercial 
> messages and ads on their cell phones this year, up from 13% in 2003, 
> according to a Yankee Group survey of 5,500 people.
> Ferris Research estimates U.S. cell phone users got 150 
> million spam text 
> messages this year, twice that of 2003; 450 million are 
> expected in 2005.
> .Blogs. Personal Web logs, or blogs, have become another 
> breeding ground, 
> though statistics aren't available. Bloggers say spam 
> messages masquerading 
> as comments from readers are cropping up. "I get five to 20 
> comment spams a 
> day," says Chris Alden, who runs a blog on tech, politics and 
> the media.
> 
> 
> Story Tools
>  Email Story
>   Post/Read Msgs
>   Print Story
> 
> Ratings: Would you recommend this story?
> Not at all 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 Highly
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Special Feature
> 
> Get Media Savvy
> The best gear to bridge the home entertainment gap
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Next Story: Marsh & McLennan lops off 3,000 jobs (USATODAY.com)
> 
> More Business - Top Stories Stories
> ·Fed Likely to Raise Rate a Quarter Point   (AP)
> ·One euro worth 1.30 dollars for first time  (AFP)
> ·Genetic Code  (Forbes.com)
> ·Can Bush Afford to Stay the Course?  (BusinessWeek Online)
> ·Microsoft Settles with Novell  (NewsFactor)
> 
> 
> ADVERTISEMENT
> 
> 
> 
> Business Education
> .Online MBA programs
> .Browse All Business Programs
> from Yahoo! Education
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Copyright © 2004 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.
> Copyright © 2004 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
> Questions or Comments
> Privacy Policy -Terms of Service - Copyright Policy - Ad Feedback
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> SDBUG mailing list
> SDBUG at sdbug.org
> http://lists.sdbug.org/mailman/listinfo/sdbug 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> SDBUG mailing list
> SDBUG at sdbug.org
> http://lists.sdbug.org/mailman/listinfo/sdbug
>