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Anti-Spammers Wage E-War
ncstockguy writes "To its credit the Hartford Courant followed up with a second article this time from the perspective of an anti-spammer." The first story was about the life and times of a spam king.
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>Spam me, and you will never, ever, get my money.
Not even for our new business opportunity of your life, now coming with a free penis enlargement, breast implants and a PhD?
Anyone remember his anti-spam campaign against one Bernard Shifman?
Shifman Is A Moron Spammer
Schwartzman's anti-spam page
Legitimate businesses usually refrain from actual spamming because they are easy to find and easy to get back at.
A major dutch newspaper (I'm dutch) once sent several tens of thousand e-mails through a known spammer advertising subscriptions. They received more than 10 thousand complaint e-mails, a few people canceled the subscription they already had and all public e-mail adresses they had were subscribed to so much e-mail/spam lists by disgruntled recipients of their spam that their internal e-mail system got overloaded several times during the following month.
Okay, so that's more like 6 words, but still it's great.
I don't know how well people will take your assessment given you think the word 'Spamassasin' is either three or six words. It's bad enough to be schizophrenic, but when both of you are wrong.....
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
This article made me think of a slightly modified version of the question asked in the article yesterday about The True Story of Website Results: If you could press a button and kill a spammer on the other side of the world, would you do it? And would you even need to be paid the million dollars?
Aaaah! Damn you, gentix! You just made me visualise someone wearing only a white lab coat and geeky specs, who had taken advantage of all 3 offers.
-- What do you need?
-- Gnus. Lots of Gnus.
"Even if I did, I make it a policy never to buy from companies that spam me, using e-mail or snail mail or telemarketeering or whatever. "
Actually I did accept a product from a telemarketer once. Qwest called me to offer its new privacy plus service..the conversation went like this:
Me: You mean if I get this installed on my phone people like you won't be able to call me anymore?
Telemarketer: Yes sir, thats absolut..oh well yes I guess thats right.
Me: SIGN ME UP!
Needless to say, I NEVER got another call from Qwest or anyother marketer!
--Should work--
Your post reminds me of KKK members who truely in their hearts believe they are doing something good for this world.
It doesn't matter that your e-mails were only 1k, you f***ing jerk. I am forced to switch e-mail accounts every 4-6 months because of idiots like you. Sifting through a list of headers containing 1k e-mails and 100k e-mails makes no difference whatsoever.
How about my buddies and I (about 10,000 of them) pin you down and pummel you with punches all day long. Don't worry, though, they will be "polite" and "little" ones. What was that - you didn't ask to get punched?
This kind of practice is what will, sooner than later I suppose, drive e-mail back into the dark ages. Wake up!!!