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Beating the Spam Merchants
Crowbraid writes: "Well-written column by Margie Boule from the Portland Oregonian about an individual who got tired of getting spam,
sued the company for $25 an email, and won." See also Bennett Haselton's anti-spam page, where he has details on "pursuing the anti-spam lawsuits on four separate fronts." (Those lawsuits were mentioned a few months back.)
All this spam news is making me sleepy.
If this spam was real spam, that fatigue would be replaced by diahrehha.
Oh my god, I'd better call my lawyer... I may already be a millionaire!
The speed of time is one second per second.
"I e-mailed back, saying 'Take me off your subscription list. I don't want this.' " And then Harold put a little bite in his request. "I wrote, 'I will charge you $25 per message as a reading fee,' " for every subsequent e-mail.
;-)
:: Worth Every Red Cent!
Harold says the fee was not just a threat; it was a reasonable charge for time and equipment. "I have to download the message, to find out it's junk and delete it. If you're using my download time, you are in effect using my services. During that time I can't use my computer, which is essential in my business."
OK, so apparently this dude thinks he's worth:
($25.00 / 2 seconds to download and identify a message) * (60 seconds / 1 minute) * (60 minutes / 1 hour) = $45,000.00 / hour.
Hell, I'll even subtract $1.00 (I'm rounding up mind you) for bandwidth and computing costs to handle the huge 2KB spams.
So, he thinks he's valued at $44,999.00 / hour. Much better.
Must be a really smart guy
m o n o l i n u x
That one is already in your mailbox, with Ed MacMahon's picture on it.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Yes, very slow....
but since i have access to a time machine i can give you tomorrows stories today....
SPAM.
SPAM.
SPAM.
LINUX RULES
SPAM.
SPAM.
Microsoft is bad.
SPAM.
SPAM.
Better yet, send out an e-mail to everyone telling them about this great money-making opportunity!
Beating the Spam Merchants
Good, you find the Spam Merchants and I'll find my bat!!
I stole this Sig
but all this Spam news is making me hungry.
Spam Nachos anyone??
Shouldn't take long.
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In fact, Apreche is a CS student at Rochester, and has this little website.
The very first link on the home page is News Archive, that leads to a non-existant page. The university's server generates a much-nicer-than-usual 404 error page, which includes among other info Apreche's email address, specifically "slr2777@osfmail.rit.edu" (which wouldn't have been very difficult to guess based on the user-style url for his site).
Also on each interior page is a mailto: link to "apreche@mail.rit.edu", preceeded with the text "Clik here to e-mail me".
Apreche, you really should fix that link... but when someone types http://www.rit.edu/~slr2777/somerandomename, they're gonna see your email address. At least it won't be due to a broken link on your own home page!
PJRC: Electronic Projects, 8051 Microcontroller Tools
You don't ever let your email address be posted anyplace? Not even like on http://www.cs.rit.edu/usr/local/photo_album/slr277 7.html?
I laugh at your pitiful lies! Your story cannot be true! It's absurd! Everyone knows spammers don't have souls...
;-)
DennyK