[Vision2020] New spamming method?

[Art Deco]

Interesting.  What's next? Interweaving messages in regular broadcasts over the regular cable/satellite programming?

Dish Network and Direct TV distributors leave bout 100 taped messages on my telephone per month, some of them quite deceptive.

Perhaps with a new administration, and after some very pressing problems are attacked, some attention could be focused on eliminating and/or rigorously controlling spam of various types.  I have written to our two senators about this and related internet security problems several times.  Each time I get the same form letter back which says they are working on the problem.  I've seen no real evidence of that, however.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sam Scripter 
  To: vision2020 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:56 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] New spamming method?


  NEW SPAMMING METHOD [NOT ON THE INTERNET]?

  I experienced today, what seems to be a method of spamming of
  a new and different kind. I've never heard about this technique 
  before. I'm wondering if any of you have, and whether you can 
  shed any light on it?

  I'm a subscriber to Dish Network.  I have a Dish Network receiver
  with a DVR. Today I found a new recording that I did not schedule 
  and that I did not initiate. E.g., It appeared there from action other 
  than mine.

  The recording is only 4 minutes long.  It's title is this:

     "Slingbox-Watch your TV/DVR anywhere in the world"

  What's next in this technological world?  Now unsolicited
  recordings proposing purchase of products or services can
  be left on one's receiver with DVR without one knowing it
  in advance!

  Technically, Dish Network may argue that I agreed to it by agreeing
  to  receive email announcements from them.  I assumed that would be
  via the internet, not by the company placing recordings on my VCR.

  This is aggressive entrepreneurship beyond good taste.  

  Sam Scripter



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