SPAM generator - SPAMgregator - SPAmEraT.or
Man oh man - I send out some invites to a ‘few close friends’ and all of a sudden the world is coming to an end.
Lets check the latest news:
- MyYahoo tells me the time is running out for Hamas
- Digg has the top 10 lists of 10 top 10 lists
- Memeorandum/TechMeme has:
Microsoft Unveils Unified Communications Product Road Map and Partner Ecosystem
- BoingBoing has something on the Residents selling blanks CDs
And now those dam aggregator aggetators spam generators grrrrr - I hate those dam PeopleAggettating assholes, grrrr - mean people - PeopleAggregator assholes - who sent me this dam spam - oh yah, that’s me.
I don’t mean to belittle the issue of SPAM - its just that I personally gets something like 500 spam a day. Now you’d think that the line between spam and somebody asking you to come and check out his baby, his loving, nurturing piece of software that he personally paid for - which no VC money has ever touched - would be considered something different then spam.
Call it spum, yum or dumb, but whatever it is - we’re testing now.
…..and this is just the testing stage. Wait til this puppy is deployed and all of a sudden there are 1,000’s of social networks in the hands of those dam spammers - I mean activists - I mean hackers - I mean bloggers - I mean dope smoking Republicans. Who have the audacity of sending out spam.
Maybe what we’re gonna see is a little more balance - at least the tools will end up in some better hands - with people who have soemthing to say instead of something to sell. I don’t know, all I know is - you can control whether or not your network spams. Its just another user setting.
YOU are the Oligarch - YOU control what happens - it’s YOUR social network.
That’s what a social network web service gets you - personal control.
Shel Israel suggested that the next time I send out a mail list - have it sent from my own name - so people could vent their rage on me personally. This was just the tester invite.
Next time I’ll………………….. [suggestions?}
June 26th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
You know what Marc, you’ve got a pretty awesome reputation in the blogosphere. If you blogged “People Aggregator lives” with a link, then you would’ve had 50 thousand links by now, instead of 50 thousands angry blogger
Just a thought! But note, you’ve got so much karma coming your way, that all you need to do is get out of the car and get back in and you are ready to go. Create a blog post that doesn’t include the world spam announcing People Aggregator and I’ll link it. Twice!
June 27th, 2006 at 12:18 am
Kinda nice to be included, don’t you think? I am glad to be on the inner circle invitation list. A personal invitation. Hardly spam.
Mark Brooks
editor, onlinepersonalswatch.com
June 27th, 2006 at 2:39 am
Let’s get back to the interesting thing. The PeopleAggregator! Just two words: it rocks!
June 27th, 2006 at 4:09 am
folks - this was just the test invites.
after 3 years of waiting, watching and preparing - trust me on this one - we’re just starting. At the end of the day - we got something like 500 people in yesterday and the fucker is dead at this point.
How else do you test social networking code - then without people? So now we go, fix it and come back for another pass.
June 27th, 2006 at 5:34 am
Well I for one appreciated the invite (well actually I got 3). Too bad I’d only started playing with it when you guys got slammed with usage. What I saw looked great.
I’ve got to say I’m glad my time isn’t so valuable that I needed to dogpile one of the good guys because his invite system hiccoughs.
June 27th, 2006 at 6:15 am
I didn’t really bother playing with it for very long, verisign’s OpenID system was crashing so I couldn’t log in. Honestly though, the web design needs work. Badly. It looks like a programmer did the design work. Oh, and I got 5 invites. You really need the invite system to remember who it’s invited so that it doesn’t resend invites to people who’ve already been invited.
June 27th, 2006 at 8:05 am
I felt special because I was invited twice! Twice, I say! Now if I were a “my email inbox is inviolate” zealot I’d be complaining for twice the damage:
I’ve seen the spamming and the damage done: Let’s see, 2 x $.00 = $.00.
June 27th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
marc, development by trial and error doesn’t sound like a very succesful methodology for rolling out an on-line service. “500 perople in yesterday and the fucker is dead”… that will be pretty humorous in the months ahead.
June 27th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
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June 28th, 2006 at 7:42 am
Marc,
You asked for suggestions on what to do next time with your invites…
…Use proper grammer, sentence structure and syntax; be cognizant of the nuances of your message.
The subject line looked like spam, but spamAssassin hadn’t tagged it. I know about PeopleAggregator, so I checked the message source. The trail of headers indicated that the message had come straight from rigel.broadbandmechanics.com (207.7.148.187), but the “From: ” header said it was from invite@peopleaggregator.net, but with a “Return-Path:” of root@rigel.broadbandmechanics.com. All of that should be OK, but even an old timer like me who was using ARPANET via the serial port on a Kaypro 2000 over 20 years ago can be fooled by sendmail hackiness.
So, within viewing message source, I read the body of the message. It was so poorly writen, I was convinced it was spam, maybe a phising ploy of somesort, playing off poor ol’ Marc and his DLA plans.
So, I deleted it without a second thought.
Then I had some time to check your blog through my feed reader, and to my surprise, saw that the invite was real.
Good luck with the PeopleAggregator.