MCU coughs up the money. (2003/12/10)
No, not my money. We’re still going to have a hearing about that. But apparently, now that word’s gotten out that they’re losing cases on this, they’re pretty eager to pay money; they settled with one guy for $1,200 in the last couple of weeks. So, if you have old junk faxes from Mobile Cellular Unlimited, don’t throw them away!
[read more...]Tech Central Station: "We don't know how you got on our list, but we don't spam." (2003/12/05)
Boy, that’s useless.
[read more...]Lawsuits are hard work (2003/12/02)
Just for the record:
[read more...]More spam from people I once trusted. (2003/11/14)
It’s sort of becoming a recurring nightmare. Companies with whom I once had a happy relationship turn to spam. The latest victim is The Chip Merchant. These people used to be a good source for reasonably-priced computer parts. I bought a lot of stuff from them. My first order was probably in 1998, and they sent order confirmation to a tagged address in the domain “nospam.plethora.net”. As they should have.
[read more...]And TechCentralStation is still spamming me. (2003/11/11)
Just for the record:
[read more...]... and all he hears is some indistinct buzzing noises. (2003/11/03)
One of the problems you occasionally face is trying to communicate with people who simply don’t have the framework to understand what you’re doing. For instance, some of the junk faxers I’ve talked to have been, so far as I can tell, incapable of comprehending the motive “I think this behavior is wrong, and want to make people stop doing it”. If it’s not profitable, it doesn’t make sense. You talk about damages, they understand. You talk about giving money to charity, and all they hear is indistinct buzzing noises. The words simply can’t make sense. A couple of these people have made it quite clear that they’ve “seen through” my claims that I think junk faxing is wrong. They don’t buy it, not for a minute, because that’s not how people are.
[read more...]Too beautiful. (2003/10/31)
Yahoo! is one of the companies who spams. They don’t harvest addresses the convential way. What they do is, every so often, declare that “database errors” mean that they can no longer be entirely sure about their database records, and that the only thing they can do is… Mark everyone to receive everything. They have done this at least once, possibly twice.
[read more...]Summary Judgment for the Plaintiff (2003/10/29)
I won my junk fax case against Mobile Cellular Unlimited on Monday.
[read more...]The truth, the whole truth, or nothing like the truth. (2003/09/24)
I think I just watched a witness lie under oath today. It’s a bit weird. You know that it happens, but you never really expect to see it happen. Today, I was a witness in a trial with Mobile Cellular Unlimited. I almost settled a case with them. Watching Richard Luzaich testify was, however, quite enlightening. For one thing, he kept watching for hand signals from his lawyer.
[read more...]Sore Loser (2003/09/19)
We’ve reached settlements in fax cases before. What’s different is that, this time, they didn’t bail on the deal at the last minute. Which isn’t to say the one guy didn’t want to.
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