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Meet the Spammers

Posted by timothy on from the ask-them-for-viagra dept.

DaveAtFraud writes: "It took a little digging to find an on-line copy of this article that I first saw in my treeware daily newspaper. Thanks to the Salt Lake City Tribune for having it on-line. According to the Spamhaus project, a handful of people are responsible for 90% of the spam that clogs you in box. This is your chace to hear from them and what they have to say is quite interesting. If you don't think the filters and blacklists work, one spammer whines, "My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters." Stopping spam is simply a matter of economics. When its uneconomical to send spam, people will stop sending it."

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  1. Martian Open Letter by hackus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dear Earth,

    We respectfully request you send some TShirts, size XL that say "Mars or Bust".

    Also, send more of those little remote controlled Martian lander thingys because the children love them as Xmas gifts.

    Thank You,

    Martians

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  2. Re:aussies are morons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Ooh... does owning a gun make you feel like a real man? Does stroking that smooth, cold metal of your gun give you a hard-on?

    Thank God over here we don't let Joe/Janet Does to own guns. And don't give me crap about how one cannot be truly free without owning a tool explicitly crafted to terminate life (and in this sense is totally different from screwdrivers, knives or axes unlike you gun-nuts would like to believe).

  3. Re:aussies are morons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't you watch the Simpsons?

    Handguns double nicely as beer-can openers.

  4. Re:WHAT!!!!! by Jezzerr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (/sarcasm on)Thanks for telling me how to post to this board! I really need your help!!(/sarcasm off)

    As for the question about the link, im not even gonna say what I think about you :)

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  5. Re:Death penalty for Spammers by Flowers_By_Irene · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why not suggest it to George "Pro-life/Pro-death" Bush while he's in his current belligerent mood. Maybe convince him spammers are terrorists or something...