November 9, 2003, 23:56
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FTC Wacks(?) Spammer
FTC Punishes Messenger Pop-Ups
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a temporary restraining order on a California company accused of using a particularly annoying type of pop-up ad -- which it used to push software to block pop-up ads.
"The defendants created the problem that they proposed to solve," said Howard Beales, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, in a statement.
The FTC's filing accuses San Diego-based D Squared Solutions LLC of unlawfully exploiting the "Messenger Service" feature in Windows. This software, unrelated to Microsoft's instant-messaging program, lets network administrators display alerts on a user's screen. Home users do not need to leave this feature on; instructions for disabling it are available at the FTC's site.
www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/popalrt.htm
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November 9, 2003, 23:59
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Deity
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[Obama] is either a troll or has no ****ing clue how government works - GePap
Later amendments to the Constitution don't supersede earlier amendments - GePap
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November 10, 2003, 00:01
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Eh, you may want to hold off on the dancing.
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November 10, 2003, 00:03
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Deity
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Any settler who posts in the OTF is by definition a DL 
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[Obama] is either a troll or has no ****ing clue how government works - GePap
Later amendments to the Constitution don't supersede earlier amendments - GePap
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November 10, 2003, 00:03
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Prometheus has been here for awhile.
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November 10, 2003, 00:06
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Deity
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Originally posted by skywalker
What an odd DL...
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Calm down newbie 
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November 10, 2003, 00:23
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Something in my gut tells me to wish this and other recent antispam victories hadn't happened. Yes, there's one less spammer, but do we really want precedent for the government to control the Internet?
(Yeah, yeah, we've got enough already, but exactly: we don't need any more as it is)
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What they did was completely legal, IMO. And there was a way to turn it off, too. It's nothing different from those pop-ups for pop-up blockers that you see, or ads from adware or spyware that say they stop adware or spyware. A business creates an annoyance and offers to get rid of it.
Now, if there was no free easy way to get rid of it, then I could understand shutting them down. But there is...and with all the people who've said "how do i turn off these annoying pop-ups" and have had the turn-off (of Messenger) process given to them, I wouldn't exactly classify it as rarely known or difficult to do
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November 10, 2003, 00:57
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Deity
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mrmitchell - this is the technicaly legal version of releasing a disease so you can make money selling a cure.
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[Obama] is either a troll or has no ****ing clue how government works - GePap
Later amendments to the Constitution don't supersede earlier amendments - GePap
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November 10, 2003, 01:00
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King
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Well thanks for admitting it's technically legal 
Pop-ups aren't a disease, and there is more than one cure...
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November 10, 2003, 01:08
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Originally posted by mrmitchell
Well thanks for admitting it's technically legal
Pop-ups aren't a disease, and there is more than one cure...
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http://www.1uffakind.com/media/popuphell/
Click go, and then come back and tell me it isn't a disease.
www.kaynor.net/fun/samples/hell.html
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November 10, 2003, 01:21
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Settler
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Gee I wonder just who's DL I might be? Is there a user here named "Fruit Loops" of "Corn Flakes" or "Special-K"?
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The ways of Man are passing strange, he buys his freedom and he counts his change.
Then he lets the wind his days arrange and he calls the tide his master.
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November 10, 2003, 02:29
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Apolyton Grand Executioner
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There are lots of Froot Loops here.
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November 10, 2003, 02:30
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PolyCast Thread Necromancer
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