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The Measured Effectiveness of Blocking Asian Spam
fadden writes: "I recently started blocking IP addresses in China and Korea that were sending me spam. Instead of a blanket ban, I only blocked the subnets from which spam was being sent. After my first week of scanning and banning, I wrote up
a report on the effectiveness of the blocks." In related news, SSKennel adds that: "The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has discovered (prepare to be amazed!) that revealing your email address in chat rooms can get you spammed. It claims to have taken action against spammers who harvest email addresses and use them to send fraudulent spam." Shocker!
Is it legal to take the email addresses from chat rooms and send non-fradualent email? I would assume so.
NO! NO! Please don't mod me, I'm too young to die a troll. *click* Oh the pain, the pain...
Fadden, your childhood family orgy
God these bastards are annoying...
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Yes. Usenet is completely safe.
This doesn't really make sense though. There is no legal requirements on the internet that says "people can't know your domain or e-mail without your permission" because that would be like saying "I am going to write notes on the wall of the bathroom in the gas station and only tell my family/friends about it and I can expect no one else to know about it."
OK it is a kinda lame anology but all I could come up with and I think it gets my point across. What you have on the internet is a matter of PUBLIC information. You have no expectation of ultimate privacy in this regard. If you find a trick that works (at least for a little while) then lucky you but this trick is not IMO (& IANAL) legal grounds for prosecution. If you want complete anonymity and pure privacy try not using the internet or setup some VPN and use a private mail server with access only by those whom you allow in the VPN.
Also, I get spam I don't like it either.
ZERO ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ONE! Just brushing up for my next big invention: Ethernet over Voice (EoV)