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Spammers Stoop To New Low
mathowie writes "I received an unsolicited spam this week from MonsterHut, extolling the virtues of their "products" which are "email marketing" (they're a spam cannon). After reporting it at Spamcop, I received an interesting email from their bandwidth host. It seems that before they could cancel MonsterHut's account for violating their terms of service, MonsterHut began suing them. The worst part? A judge granted MonsterHut a temporary restraining order, forcing Paetec to keep their site online while they continue spamming, before Paetec even knew about the suit. Paetec is collecting affadavits from people that received the spam, so if you did, fill one out. It may be their only chance against the court. How far will spammers go to get their word out? When's it going to stop?"
Recently I have started getting spam that bypasses my filter by using MY NAME to send it to me. They are sending me mail with things like myname-at-msn.com or myname-at-yahoo.com.
Spam must be ended, along with the people who do it.
I am not the only one who wants these people to get crippling cancer and then get burnt slowly in a car crash with a steel post. Am I?
btw, using -at- because I am working on an apple mac at the moment, and am used to using real computers =P
The people do not agree, but the people are wrong.
I have to admit that I find it interesting that everybody wants to stop spammers. So many of these same folks are the ones that want Dmitri released for exercising free speach... *sigh*
I know I'll probably get moderated down into oblivion for saying this, but I don't see how this is any different than the Dmitri case. I know - people will start talking about "well, it costs me to download it so they're hurting me financially". And I suppose that what Dmitri did isn't going to hurt Adobe financially?
Anyway, I don't remember who said it, but somebody once said (paraphrase) "I may disagree strongly with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
I guess that only applies when what somebody has to say doesn't annoy us and cause us to have to hit the 'd' key.
Give a man a match, you keep him warm for an evening.
Light him on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life
I successfully went 4 years of undergraduate with only about 50 spams. It's easy to do, just don't publish your e-mail address everywhere. On accounts where I do get a lot of spam, I just delete it. No big deal, and it kills fewer trees than postal mail. It's also easier to automate. Spam that is a scam or illegal deserves to be dealt with using existing consumer-protection laws, but I am opposed to any kind of government regulation of the internet. We have technological measures which are more effective than any legal remedies; I suggest that we use (and continue to develop) them.
Why does everyone hate spam? Do you send emails to the hosts of every spam message you recieve? Do you sit down and write letters to the company of every piece of junk mail you get? HIT THE BLOODY DELETE BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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As an ISP, you have to get a search warrant to log your own traffic? What the hell? You don't even need to log message contents to prove it's spam--just look for patterns generated by mass-emailers (shitloads of messges of about the same size all going out at once). True, they could be mailing customers, but, if they're a small company and mailing 10 million people, that's kinda unlikely.
WTF is up with Australia? The government can rape you any way they want, but, as a private individual or company, you have to tiptoe around restrictive slander laws, you seem to get screwed every time you connect to the internet, and only China and Afghanistan have worse internet censorship. And you call yourselves a democracy?