kasia in a nutshell

Seems this is now of more interest.. wired just did a story on this new spam form.

Referral logs, intended to collect information on who visited a website and how they happened to arrive there, are being stuffed with bogus links. Curious bloggers who click on a logged link to see who visited their site are instead led to pornography or advertising sites.

No kidding.. I wrote about it here, here and here.

Spammers, once again, take something useful and make it less so.. and where's our legislature in all this? Oh yes, too busy protecting rights of corporations instead of the people they're supposed to serve.

Repeat after me..
It is NOT okay to use someone's resources to spam them with marketing messages..
It is NOT okay to interfere with someone's usage of email to spam them with marketing messages.
It is NOT okay to interfere with someone's usage of system logs to spam them with marketing messages.
It is NOT okay to interfere with someone's usage of the internet to spam them with marketing messages.
It is NOT okay to fill peoples lives with marketing messages.

Fictional entities (corporations) should not have rights above those of living humans (dead ones can't be spammed).

How long before http://www.weblogs.com and http://blo.gs can no longer defend themselves from spammers and will discontinue their services? I'm guessing less than a year. Thanks a lot.