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Exposing Spammers For All They're Worth
llywrch points out this interesting story at Art & Farces in which a "guy fights spammers by occasionally sending an email telling the spammer to leave him alone or he'll bill for time & services. Some take him off their mailing list, some pay the bill, but most don't respond . . . except one guy who was so incensed at receiving this invoice he had his lawyers send a threatening note. Makes it easier for Fraase to collect on his invoice."
Is that a record?
Anyone watch Jerry Springer last Friday? They had a 400lb guy on that was wearing a spam suit, I had to put down what I was eating when I saw it. Perhaps they should make spammers watch that episode over and over, with monty pythons "SPAM SPAM SPAM" played in the background. Pound the word SPAM into their heads so hard that they become lucid and start repeating the word SPAM SPAM SPAM uncontrollably.
Or we could wire them up to this little evil device. Connect the router traffic led to a relay, connect the other end of the relay to the button on a stun gun. Everytime there is a reply to their spam they get a shock.
Hmm i'm still feeling evil here folks. Construct a device that is like the house arrest anklets they make DUI people wear except put a electric shocker on there. Unless they repeat "I am a spammer idiot who is nothing more than a sunday driver with bandwidth" into the voice recognition unit on the anklet every 2 minutes, they recieve a shock.
Maybe we should just go back to the good 'ol town square stockades and sell rotten fruit for some good 'ol public humiliation.
Hmm, so when someone expresses concern about civil liberties being slowly eliminated, that's "hate mongering"??
Wow, I'm sure your comrades from the old indoctrination camps are impressed.
(At least it's good to know that knee-jerk reaction to someone treading carefully around civil liberties identifies them as "Republican" for a change...though I suspect that has more to do with the choice of the phrase "hate mongering" than with the issue of "civil liberties".)
As far as the other adjective, "anti-government", is concerned, I find it interesting that when someone says government should be kept small, effective, and non-intrusive, they're "anti-government", but when someone tells a friend that they should lose excess fat, or should figure out what they most want to do in life and focus primarily on that, or should keep their noses out of other peoples' business, they're looking out for that friend's well-being rather than being "anti-friend". Hmm.
Something for those interested in /. moderation to think about: the post I'm replying to was scored at +5, Insightful, while the post he was trashing was at only +2, Informative (though that author's response to the "hate-mongering" post was at +3, Insightful).
Which does that suggest most about /. moderators:
They find posts expressing concern about over-regulation opening the door to eliminating civil liberties less worthy than those restating the legal status of various forms of spam and opining that e-mail spam should be illegal.
They love any post that starts off with a phrase like "Drop the Republican anti-government hate mongering", despite the fact that there's no evidence in the parent post of either Republicanism per se or hatred at all.
I'm guessing think it's about a 50/50 proposition....
Practice random senselessness and act kind of beautiful.
I've submitted the details of my success twice to slashdot but my stories are always rejected.
Yep. slashdot is just B R O K E N .
I suggest you try kuro5hin.org instead.
(I assume this because I have a 'shiny new fake username')
Well guess what...
My name really is Bayliss. HA!
You sure showed them. And just think, now that you spent 10 minutes writing a reply, sending it to the spammers, and bragging about it on slashdot, you have a lot more in damages to sue them over then the 1 second of your time to hit the delete key.
You have no idea what damage "spam" does do you? You think the "Slashdot effect" is profound? How about the effect that spam has on ISPs but to mention people who have their email boxes needlessly filled with crap. Furthermore, thanks to vulnerabilities ala Microsoft, users are exposed to even more of such annoyances through pop-ups and pop-unders.
The annoyance at users', ISPs' and mail adminstrators' expenses should be halted. The argument "just delete it" doesn't hold water since in most cases the email must be opened and downloaded in order to delete it.
Furthermore, I will add that porn spam, which exists in many forms has a special place in my angry heart. I'm a father of two sons. They don't need this crap in their boxes. Additionally, they don't need to read anything about penis enlargement, breast enhancements, herbal viagra or any other such related information.
"Delete" yes -- Delete the spammer at the source, not the destination.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) /. scripts will see it, and reset YOU karma to 0. (Did that)
You can do much better : wait till you're moderator, choose some random regular poster, and bitchslap him ! If you do all of this to the same person, the
Actually yes, they usually are.