http://dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?a...rticle_id=23914
hmmm, basically FTC is giving up and relying on admins to close their open relays.....
something odd in that article:
Clickformail.com, Austin, TX, accused by the FTC of charging consumers $49.95 for access to credit card offers they could have obtained for free by using an Internet search engine.
Why is that illegal? They are providing information people are willing to pay for...maybe people that don't have the time or skills to look up? Should it then be illegal for the kid who mows our lawn to charge us...since I could do it myself for free?
I used to make money writing "how-to" booklets and placing tiny classified ads in newspapers and made a nice little chunk of change...should that be illegal since people could have went and found that information themselves while I took the time to research it and put it into a viable package for them???
sometimes I wonder about the priorities of the fucking government...shouldn't we be spending this money on more bombs to drop on brown people who live in the desert?
I'm all for protecting people from ripoffs and scams like the Nigerian Letter Scam, but this is ridiculous.....