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Stupid Activist Watch: Eghads! Monopoly Embraces Capitalism!
The humorless nags, er, well-meaning and enlightened activists at Commercial Alert have worked themselves into a lather over Hasbro giving its venerable Monopoly game a commercial makeover.
Five tokens in the updated version introduced last week are branded products
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Spamhaus to Blacklisted Marketer: Come and Get Us
The Spamhaus Project is thumbing its nose at an e-mail marketer who won a court judgment in Illinois of $11.7 million against the UK-based anti-spam blacklisting group.
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E-newsletter program helps PTC’s resellers connect with software prospects
Software marketer PTC is seeing an uptick in revenue and customer interaction thanks to an e-newsletter program for its resellers created by IMN.
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FTC Settles Four Spamming Cases
The Federal Trade Commission Thursday announced settlements with four operations it accused of sending illegal spam e-mail.
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Accord Holdings Buys Netizen
Accord Holdings Ltd has acquired online marketing systems developer Netizen.
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Michigan Casts Wide Do-Not-E-Mail Net
If the first charges brought under Michigan’s so-called child-protection do-not-e-mail law are any indication, the state is casting a far wider net than Utah.
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People Will Turn on Images in E-mail: Epsilon
While most consumers have encountered default image suppression in their e-mail boxes, most also know how to turn them on and will do so in e-mail from senders they know and trust, according to a survey released yesterday by e-mail service provider Epsilon Interactive.
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Stupid Country Watch: New Zealand to Allow Nonprofit Spam
Proving that Utah and Michigan don’t have a monopoly on wacky lawmakers, New Zealand’s commerce select committee has recommended changing the country’s anti-spam bill so its citizens can send unsolicited e-mail and need not stop even if asked by the recipient to do so, as long as the messages are non-commercial, according to a story on Stuff.co.nz.
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Poland Raises Ante Against Spam
Poland has added an anti-spam provision in a draft amendment to its telecommunications law, according to TMCnet.
The new regulation would make spamming—which the report did not define—a crime punishable by a fine of up to $32,000.
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