Bizarre spam of the day
Sep. 7th, 2005 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
undyingkingI've got no idea what on earth the point of this is -- particularly the curious note at the end. Anyone else get one?
COURT DOCUMENTS: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Vowed to "KILL" Google News Published: September 2, 2005, 1:07 PM PDT Reprinted From CNET News.com - Written by Ina Fried ----- ---- --- -- - - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Google in an expletitive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work for Google, the engineer claimed in court documents made public on Friday. In a sworn statement made public Friday, Mark Lucovsky, another Microsoft senior engineer who left for Google in November 2004, recounted Ballmer's angry reaction when Lucovsky told Ballmer he was going to work for the search engine company. "At some point in the conversation, Mr. Ballmer said: 'Just tell me it's not Google,'"Lucovosky said in his statement. Lucovosky replied that he was joining Google. "At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office," Lucovosky recounted, adding that Ballmer then launched into a tirade about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." Schmidt previously worked for Sun Microsystems and was the CEO of Novell. ARTICLE AT: http://news.com.com/Court+docs+Ballmer+vowed+to+kill+Google/2100-1014_3-5846243.html? COMMENTED AT: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/09/03/0515250.shtml?tid=109&tid=217&tid=133&tid=123 ASK YOURSELF: Do you trust a company with "your computer" security/privacy and support a company with a CEO that acts in this manner? ----- ---- --- -- - - MICROSOFT: Self-Admitted World's Largest & Greatest Spammer ----- ---- --- -- - - " I'm with one of the greatest, most hated institutional "spammers" around. We are a spamhouse. Doesn't matter that we're Microsoft. Our legitimate, unsolicited email is still just spam. " - Mike Lyman - MICROSOFT HEAD EMAIL ABUSE ADMINISTRATOR ABOVE STATEMENT ARCHIVED & COMMENTED ON AT: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?S1=spam-l&X=- 1. Under Search for type: "We are a spamhaus." 2. Under Search for type: "most hated institutional" ----- ---- --- -- - - " Businesses ought to be able to send unsolicited e-mail to people even if they are unsure if they have a pre-existing business relationship with them. " - Ryan Hamlin - MICROSOFT CHIEF COUNSEL - August 22nd, 2005 ABOVE STATEMENT ARCHIVED & COMMENTED ON AT: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3384447a28,00.html http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/08/22/1717258.shtml?tid=111&tid=109 ----- ---- --- -- - - - [ Public Service Announcement Brought To You By SPAMIS ] - [ Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam ] [SPAMIS NOTIFICATION]: Fully "READY" to Begin Increasing Public Service Announcement Emails to 20 Times the Amount of Internet Users by 25 Times the Current Sending Rate & Speed When a Certain Activity Transpires. [CURRENTLY IN WAITING FOR THIS ACTIVITY TO TRANSPIRE]
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Date: 2005-09-07 09:40 am (UTC)What, "my computer"?
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Date: 2005-09-07 09:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-08 09:36 am (UTC)What they do next is anybody's guess.
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Date: 2005-09-08 11:39 am (UTC)I wondered about that, but that bit is actually a necessary part of the genuine news.com url for that story. In fact AFAICS all the links are entirely genuine, so whoever sent this isn't going to be getting anything off them. And the email itself was text only, so there can't be anything cunning concealed within it... mysterious!