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Monday 25 October 2010

How to Deal With Spam…LEGALLY!!

This entry is applicable only to spam from South African websites
Surprise! Surprise! The Act allows for unsolicted emails to be sent as long as it meets certain requirements. Somehow it doesn’t make sense – heh! I mean, why have requirements permiting an action when the idea is to prevent the action from happening in the first place! At least measures have been put in place to deal with it once it happens…this is the subject of this entry…to inform you what you can do, i.e. when your rights (in terms of the Act) have been infringed.
For this purpose i’ve borrowed an entry by John Giles, made on the ISPA website, that explains it beautifully. A sample response  letter and text from the Act is included for your convenience. See below:
Here is the specific text of the Act relevant to spam:
Unsolicited goods, services or communications
45.(1) Any person who sends unsolicited commercial communications to consumers, must provide the consumer
(a) with the option to cancel his or her subscription to the mailing list of that person; and
(b) with the identifying particulars of the source from which that person obtained the consumer’spersonal information, on request of the consumer.
(2) No agreement is concluded where a consumer has failed to respond to an unsolicited communication.
(3) Any person who fails to comply with or contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable, on conviction, to the penalties prescribed in section 89(1).
(4) Any person who sends unsolicited commercial communications to a person who has advised the sender that such communications are unwelcome, is guilty of an offence and liable, on conviction, to the penalties prescribed in section 89(1).
In responding to local spam you might find the following template message most useful in getting results
This template is also located here: http://www.internet.org.za/spam_message.txt
On [insert date here], I received the following message from you:
| Blah, blah, blah
Since this is a commercial message, and since I have not requested to be placed on your mailing list, this message constitutes an unsolicited communication in terms of section 45 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act (Act 25 of 2002).
In terms of section 45(4) of this Act, this message serves as notification that I do not wish to receive any further communications from you. Failure to comply with this request constitutes a criminal offense in terms of the ECT Act.
Additionally, I hereby request that you immediately disclose where you obtained my contact details, as per section 45(1) of the ECT Act. Failure to respond to this request also constitutes a criminal offense.
[Optional paragraph:
I note that your original message did not provide me with an option to cancel my subscription to your mailing list, as required by section 45(1) of the Act. This means that you may already have committed an offense in terms of section 45(3) of the Act, and may be subject to prosecution.
]
Should you wish to familiarise yourself with the relevant legislation, or check my facts, a copy of the ECT Act is available on-line via the Government’s web site: http://www.info.gov.za/view/DownloadFileAction?id=68060
Your co-operation in this matter will be appreciated.
Note: The Government of South Africa’s website has been known to change their link structure causing documents to become unavailable at their previous locations. Please verify the link before sending the above message. Please report broken links on this website to queries [at] ispa.org.za
You can also read the following legal opinion on the matter:
Legal View: The Law vs the Scrouge of Spam (Lance Michalson, 2003).
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Wednesday 6 October 2010

What are RRS Feeds? How can i get and use it?


Most of us 'salted' web surfers would know what it is and what it does, etc. Honestly, i've been using it for ages, but never knew until today that it stood for Really Simple Syndication - simple isn't it! LOL.

RSS acts a filter for your interests, i.o.w you can view online content without having to everytime go back to the various sites. Almost like the scrolling news items you see at the bottom of your tv screen when the news is read! In most cases the site would provide the content for free....since they get extra exposure on your site! So with RSS you get the latest updates from your favourite sites, without having to login.

Do you want RSS feeds on your site? This is how you do it!

You will have to download an RSS Reader. After installation, just copy and paste the URL link from the URL bar of your browser and add it to the Add Feeds section of your favourite RSS Reader.

Remember: Always read the terms and conditions, some sites require you to first get permission, especially if your website is used for commercial purposes!

Neodollar is a scam site!

Neodollar is a site that has exactly the same layout, colors as the much trusted and well liked PTC site Neobux. The most obvious feature pointing to SCAM is them paying $1 per click which is definitely not sustainable. The industry average is 1 - 2c per click and 5c in exceptional cases. Below are two PTC sites you can visit for a more detailed review of this scam site!

Scam - NeoDollar
Neodollar.com has the same owner as a known scammer, the old owner of GPTnetwork. As you can see in the next screen-shot, he is using the same server as he ...
www.yourptclist.com/directory/scam?sobi2Task=sobi2Details... - Cached
 

  • NeoDollar (neodollar.com) - SCAM

    4 Aug 2010 ... NeoDollar, another high rate per click scam. We would not recommend this site for the reasons previously described.
    ptc-investigation.com/neodollar.aspx - Cached

  • Is NeoDollar.com Scam? Yes, NeoDollar pays 1$/click? No ...


  • Monday 4 October 2010

    Official end of World War 1

    It is official: WW1 only ended yesterday!! As part of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany agreed to pay hundreds of  billion of  Dollars to a numebr of countries, as well as indiviudals and companies. This past Sunday, a payment of $93.8 million was expected to be made to France and Belgium, thereby putting an end to the war.
    So there you have it! The war - WW1 - did not end on November 11, 1918 as we've been taught in school!

    Probably the most interesting piece of news i heard/read for this year! Just had to do it in BOLD! For the full story visit the link below for the article by Juli Weiner  posted on September 30, 2010, 1:15 PM :
     World War I Expected to End This Sunday! Our Prediction? A German Loss