Network Abuse
Sunday, 18 May 2003 22:01:31
I've put a comment on the relevant page about it, but I also want to put a comment here.
One person decided to add me to a yahoo groups mailing list on 18 May 2003 without my knowledge or permission. I regard that sort of action as intolerably rude, and effectively identical to spamming. I can only assume it was the moderator of the pacific_rim_healthcare_00 group. I don't know who that is, by there was only one poster in the archive on yahoo.com, one David Paraiso (dparaiso@worldnet.att.net) (homepage). Yahoo elides the email address for spam protection and privacy purposes, but I have a certain amount of detective skills... I have already complained to Yahoo! abuse, so hopefully Mr. Paraiso should have his accounts cancelled, or at least receive a strong rebuke.
On this page, Mr Paraiso claims to have 23 years of Electronic Commerce activity. Was there Electronic Commerce in 1980? The internet was explicitly non-commercial then, and it was the ARPANET, if I recall correctly. Of course, there were certain services where you could dial up and get access: my secondary school had such a service from the computer room to the local University (UCC) at about that time. But was there 'large-scale Electronic Commerce systems integrations projects' back then?
There's a lot of buzzwords floating around Mr. Paraiso's pages: if he'd mentioned that he was experienced at 'utilising dynamic synergy to leverage the corporate relationships' I'd have assumed it was a parody page. And, when someone who claims that much exposure to the Electronic world is then ignorant of basic netiquette, I have to question the quality of their exposure and their experience.