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Collateral Damage in the Spam War
MarkedMan writes "The link points to a well researched article on Spam lists and those innocently appended to them. I have seen this myself with MailWasher. A posting will come through as potential spam, with the the bounce already red-flagged, but it is actually from a legitimate source. Only happens once or twice a month but still cause for worry.
" I've found that Spam Assassin has made life easier, but I still have to ban domains like yahoo.com, hotmail.com, mail.com - and *.ru and *.cn. I sort through the spam periodically, but the collateral damage is still there.
That's pretty lofty coming from "I.T.R.A.R.K.". It's a term I've been using for over 20 years. Go hack a website or something.
The most important thing any republican needs to know.
...as long as people think there's money to be made (or fun to be had) and it won't get you busted.
the problem: there IS money to be made. a shitload of it too. even if anti-spam laws are passed AND enforced, spammers are brought to 'justice' and everyone on here who wants to get paid their $.10 per spam e-mail gets paid directly by the spammers, it WON'T stop spam. Spammers HAVE the money to pay lawyers and fees that may arise. (I had to pay my ISP 'fines' a couple times) But ya know what? I'm still here, AND making more than my parents combined (I'm a 19 year old college kid) So now.. if a 19 year old college kid can do this on his days off from school, do you really think spam is gonna stop? HELL NO. The ONLY solution to stop spam totally is laws against the sponsors who pay the spammers per signup or sale. Until companies stop paying spammers, they will never dissappear.