====================================================================== CFJ 1128 In posting a message to agora-business with the subject "Maximize your website's traffic!", Steve committed the Crime of Misrepresentation by stating, on or around lines 138-155 of the body of the message, "Here's a sampling of some results we've acheived for previous clients. (These examples are for competitive keywords--not just obscure words on which no one is conducting searches.) <> 6 top-10 rankings on Infoseek for different relevant keywords <> 18 top-10 rankings across the major search engines <> 3 top-10 rankings on Alta Vista for one keyword <> 16 total *number one* rankings <> 40 top-30 rankings, spread across the different engines. <> 1 to 2 hits per week increased to 500 per day <> 45,000 hits per month grew to 108,000." ====================================================================== Called by: Chuck Judge: Oerjan Judgement: FALSE Judge selection: Eligible: Oerjan, Blob, Murphy, Peekee, Vlad, Kolja A., elJefe, Michael, Morendil, Elysion, Crito, harvel, David Not eligible: Caller: Chuck Barred: Steve Had their turn: - Already served: - Defaulted: - By request: - On Hold: - ====================================================================== History: Called by Chuck: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:07:45 0500 Assigned to Oerjan: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:04:20 +0200 Judged FALSE by Oerjan: Mon, 3 May 1999 20:47:06 +0200 Judgement published: as of this message ====================================================================== Judge's Arguments: I judge FALSE. I have been persuaded by Steve's defense argument to this charge; since the message (and in particular the quoted part) was presented as spam, the hype inside would not be trusted by a reasonable person and so should not be considered to have been presented as correct. I am not sure whether this could even be extended to the CFJ regarding the From: header; It is fairly well known that unless a spam requests business replies (which does not include remove replies) by reply email, then the From: header is highly likely to be fake as well. ====================================================================== Caller's Arguments: Steve knows that neither he, nor any "we" which might reasonably include Steve, has not achieved such results with web pages. ====================================================================== Evidence attached by the Caller: ======================================================================