Re: FTC files complaint against "BogusComputerScan Software" makers

["Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

> Interesting.  What have they had to say about "Spammin' Stu"
> Sjouwerman of Sunbelt Software, who not only had the audacity to spam
> (hardly uncommon) but did so in part in order to hawk a product called
> "IHateSpam"?
> (See redacted and de-HTML-ized spample below.)
>
> *You* seem like a capable guy, Alex, and as far as I can tell, your
> actions in the Julie Amero case were exemplary.  But Sunbelt Software
> is permanently blacklisted here, along with every other so-called
> "anti-spam" vendor that used/uses spam -- about two dozen so far. 
> Those companies who are deliberately making the spam problem worse in
> order to profit don't belong on the Internet.


Fair enough.  I would only say that this stuff occurred 7-10 years ago,
and the company is not even close to what it was back in the 90s and
early part of this decade.  


Alex

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