{"id":955,"date":"2003-02-26T02:47:21","date_gmt":"2003-02-26T18:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/26\/this-isnt-helping\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:30:50","slug":"this-isnt-helping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/26\/this-isnt-helping\/","title":{"rendered":"This isn&#039;t helping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, Robert Scoble asked what <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2003\/02\/22.html#a2331\" title=\"Regarding that last item...\">we think Microsoft should do<\/a> in the future, both with technology and to improve their public persona. I haven&#8217;t done much for coming up with a list of what they <em>should<\/em> do, but here&#8217;s a hint to Micosoft: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/134640869_webspam25.html\" title=\"Microsoft pushes for weakening of anti-spam law\">this is something you really <em>shouldn&#8217;t<\/em> do<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Anti-spam activists and a state attorney have argued against a proposal pushed by Microsoft that would weaken Washingtons tough law against unwanted e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>  In one way, Senate Bill 5734 would expand the states Commercial Electronic Mail Act by requiring that unsolicited commercial e-mail must include &#8220;ADV:&#8221; as the first four characters in the subject line, to make filtering out such messages easier.<\/p>\n<p>  But it would also carve out a broad exemption in the law for mail sent by companies the recipient has done business with, and completely exempt Internet service providers &#8212; including Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>  Microsoft is one of the worlds largest providers of Internet service, and a company that has an existing business relationship with virtually every computer user.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;The way its written, it exempts them from the whole thing,&#8221; said Jim Kendall, president of Telebyte Northwest in Silverdale, a small Internet service provider.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/02\/25\/2057236\" title=\"\/.: Microsoft fights to weaken Washington anti-spam law\">\/.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, Robert Scoble asked what we think Microsoft should do in the future, both with technology and to improve their public persona. I haven&#8217;t done much for coming up with a list of what they <em>should<\/em> do, but here&#8217;s a hint to Micosoft: this is something you really <em>shouldn&#8217;t<\/em> do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}