IP: Re: Wireless spam

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:52:52 -0700
>From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
>
>
>
>David Farber wrote:
> >
> > >From: "Alan A. Reiter" <reiter@wirelessinternet.com>
>
> > >CNET's news.com (http://www.news.com) today reports there's a class action
> > >suit against AT&T Wireless because of wireless spam in Phoenix.
>
>Hello Dave,
>
>Alan has misunderstood/misquoted the article.
>
>We're doing the ground work for a class-action suit against the Mortgage
>company, *nor* AT&T.
>
>As an update, we've identified at least 170,000 Phoenix cellphone
>numbers that appear to have received the spam. And they cover the
>spectrum, including AT&T, Verizon, US West/QWEST, Nextlink, and
>Voicestream.
>
>As a result of the NPR spot I did this morning, I have been contacted by
>two Colorado residents who received the spam from the same company
>today. so the problem is not spreading.
>
>It is rather ironic that email spam first got established out of Phoenix
>in 1994 when local immigration attorneys Canter and Segal started
>spamming usenet. Now it looks like Phoenix gets a second black eye with
>the first widespread use of cellphone spam.
>
>--
>Rodney Joffe
>CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
>http://www.centergate.com
>"Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(SM)



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