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The ongoing saga of Presidential SPAM….

Todd Muffley — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:27:45 +0000

The White House has now come out and said yes, SPAM was sent from our server, but it isn’t our fault, blaming the SPAM on people (or action groups) who went to the Government site and put people on the White House list without their permission. (see full story at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/17/questions-remain-unsolicited-white-house-e-mails/)

What is really comes down to is, as I stated in my last post, the opt in/confirmation process. If the White House was using a reputable provider for their email services, like Fat Atom, they would know that there is a process to go through to verify the actual email address inputted was done by the email address owner. This isn’t rocket science, but it was overlooked by the administration and their current ESP.

A great lesson to learn the hard way!

Now even the President is a spammer…

Todd Muffley — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:13:52 +0000

and he isn’t even taking responsibility for it. The article is very interesting as I have been following this story from the beginning. It all started when a Fox news reporter questioned the White House Press Secretary last week on American citizens getting White House email that they did not ask for or sign up for.

Back and forth ensued and finally, this is what the White House states, “”We are implementing measures to make subscribing to e-mails clearer, including preventing advocacy organizations from signing people up to our lists without their permission when they deliver petition signatures and other messages on individuals’ behalf,”.

So basically they are blaming advocacy groups for putting people on the White House list. The President probably hasn’t heard the term “opt-in confirmation” before, but Fat Atom sure could help them.

MySpace is dead… the Prostitutes and MLM’ers have left.

Chris Hoyt — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:07:29 +0000

MySpace has been struggling against the ever growing popularity of Facebook, but I believe the real “last nail in the coffin” is coming from Twitter. MySpace used to pummel my inbox with “friends” I have never met, but apparently found me irresistibly sexually attractive. I was beginning to think I had lost that cyber-sex appeal as my MySpace spam trickled to a stop. Lo and behold, my inbox has once again began filling with pleas from girls who desperately wanted to meet me. This time it wasn’t from MySpace… it was from Twitter. It was at this point I realized, MySpace is dead.

Yes, like rats leaving a sinking ship, all the cyber-sex prostitutes, multi-level marketing scammers, male enhancement salesmen, and all other species of spammers are bailing out of their MySpace strategies and have moved on to Twitter. I don’t know what kind of official projection statistics have been done regarding the amount of spam and the growing success of a social media website have been done, but its solid enough evidence for me.

My own MySpace page friends list has dwindled to almost nothing as even my real friends are focusing on Facebook. I hardly ever visit it, and sorry Tom, but your just not worth it. (I never liked you anyway). While I am sure MySpace’s remaining loyal followers, independent punk rock groups and pedophiles, will keep it trudging along for a couple years, it seems clear to me it’s days are numbered.

While I am sure many will disagree with my incredibly scientific analysis, MySpace needs to think of something Facebook and Twitter haven’t thought of yet to attract users back. In the meantime, I will be sticking with Facebook and Twitter where I find real people actively participating and random anonymous women still think I am “hot and sexy”.