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From: "Karl-Henry Martinsson" <na...@martinsson.us>
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:14:36 GMT

"stinky" <stee...@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:steenky-C9A87F.10155116042007@bignews.bellsouth.net...
> Indeed. I suspect that they are not able to sweep this one under the
> carpet as easily as they did the other ones. Plus they are dealing with
> a more informed public, who has the access to create tagged email
> addresses.
>
> One of the first excuses given to me on another instance of my tagged
> email getting out to stock spammers was that my email address was easy
> to guess. I will give them that, no problem, my mistake to believe that
> a corporation would protect my privacy and when they didn't they would
> blame me for it. So then I changed my email to something a lot harder to
> guess. I banged on the keyboard and came up with my new and improved
> email address. Then again, here comes the spam after a period of time.
>
> Another reason Ameritrade can't dismiss me as easily is that I have my
> own mail logs. They can't say "dictionary attack" because I have the
> logs. Most users don't have that luxury at their hands, and to get the
> logs would take a court order and $$$$$.
>
> It will be good to watch them wiggle on this one. I wonder if a media
> outlet would like to take this one on. I don't know, my faith in the
> media is so/so. I just need to remember to contact them every so often
> and see what the progress is and to send them the logs on my THREE
> previous ameritrade accounts that are still receiving stock spams. I do
> find it funny that they receive ONLY stock spams. It might be time to
> get the government involved in this one.

Contact IDG (Computerworld/Infoworld). They have some clued in writers. 
Robert McMillan at their News Service is good. 
http://www.networkworld.com/Home/rmcmillan.html

/Karl