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Posted By: Bill Carton - the Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: I agree about Don Alm, too, but (Bob Baroner)
Sunday, 13 November 2005, at 7:05 a.m.
> I hope that you realize that Don Alm, if he has as much money as he makes
> himself seem, you are seetting yourself up for a lawsuit that you will
> most likely lose by puitting up a website like that.
Curious about what you think might be actionable on that page. Most aggressive phrase I see is "...I don't believe that Don gave the promised money to either the Red Cross or the Salvation Army..."
> But if you got the balls, more power to ya. Don Alm is a fake and I might
> even go as far as to call him a fr*ud as well.
Your posting is far more aggressive, and I'm amazed to see we might be on the same side here. :-)
> Keep fighting the good fight. I only wish that MaaMaw would understand
> that she has been duped by Don Alm into thinking he is an
> "honest" "businesssman".
Don Alm got on my radar screen seven years ago for getting in bed (at least he allowed his photo to be used on some web sites and I suspect he was making a commission from sales) with a loser spammer out of Dayton, Ohio: Mike Rogers. Mike even set up a fake ISP, SpaceISP, to host sites advertising for "Mr. FaxBux". When the average spam tracker complained to the ISP they thought was going to do something about the spammer, Mike would just quit spamming that complainer. The right thing to have done was get SpaceISP booted from *their* provider, which happened on my watch. Last I saw, Mike Rogers was reduced to buying hosting in China, which is widely blocklisted.
A fellow spam fighter posted in 2001 about a more direct connection, where Don had an email address on Mike Rogers spam domain manda1.com, but I have no personal evidence of that in my archives.
And the final nail in his coffin is his own web site from 1998, saved for posterity at the Wayback Machine at www.archive.org. Check out the earliest archived copy of www.pjbux.com, and follow the link to the faxfinder software.
http://web.archive.org/web/19981206110256/www.pjbux.com/faxfinder/index.htm
Don commissioned a programmer to create what's called a wardialer. It dials every phone number in an area code and prefix, and keeps track of which ones answer with fax tones. It annoys countless numbers of real people with anonymous hang-up calls, all in the pursuit of fax numbers to use for unsolicited fax blasting. I guess Don must have missed the 1991 federal law that made those illegal unless you had prior permission of the owner of the fax machine.
That Don Alm made money in the 90's from violating federal law is a serious problem for boy scouts like me. Perhaps for you as well.
So Bob, does this evidence mean I'm going after an innocent person unnecessarily?
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