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Spam King Lives Large off Others' E-Mail Troubles

Posted by Hemos on from the eating-off-of-others dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Those who are fighting spam will tell you that one of the most notorious spammers out there is Alan Ralsky. Well, the Detroit Free Press has a very interesting article on him. This guy is about as unrepentant as they come, and he's saying he wants to branch out into delivering pop-up spam via the Windows Messanging service present on most Windows boxes. If you sysadmins out there have been wavering about whether to block spam-friendly networks, read this article, then go to The Spamhaus Project and SPEWS and start getting IP ranges to block." Update: 11/25 12:35 GMT by H : Yep, it's a dupe. Nope, I haven't had my coffee yet.

12 of 285 comments (clear)

  1. Yay... by Omkar · · Score: 3, Funny

    C'mon, I know this guy deserves to be hung, drawn, and quartered, but let's not repeat the exact same link.

  2. Re:Open In Case Of Slashdot Effect... by dattaway · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice house. I'd like to throw him a housewarming party.

  3. no sex? by imag0 · · Score: 1, Funny

    "I don't do any porn or sexual messages," he said, citing a promise he made to his wife, Irmengard.

    Thank *god* we have a man of such impeccable character handling business like that!

  4. OK, time to dig up... by Ari+Rahikkala · · Score: 5, Funny

    All the +5 funny responses about digging up +5 insightful and +5 informative responses that have already been posted on repeat stories!

  5. Surely this is the guy... by clickety6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... we should be sending all our AOL CDs to ?

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  6. I'm buying a can or two of spam by testadicazzo · · Score: 1, Funny
    And my next trip to the states I'm going to launch them through his window.

    Now Just imagine if all of us did this, a different person, every week, for years. Eventually he'd get repentant.

    What might be even better: take the spam out of the can and splat it against his car window...

    Okay, individually some of us will get caught and fined, but really, isn't it worth it?

  7. Re:Alan Ralsky? by nzhavok · · Score: 2, Funny

    So the Romanians lied to him, isn't this a good thing?

    Dear Mr Ransky
    !!!!DO NOT DELETE THIS!!!
    !!!!THIS IS NOT SPAM!!!!!
    Please read on to find out the latest trends in internet advertising, make $5000 per week just by sitting at your computer. Thanks to the world wide web and microsofts security become a millionaire in weeks!!! New advertising techniques developed by a crack team of romainian programmers allow direct-market-content-delivery-infrastructure-syst ems to be deployed on your PC. Market to millions realtime...


    lalala, at least I hope it went something like that :-/

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  8. Spam King, advertiser, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Spammer / entrepeneur Alan Ralsky was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

  9. Re:What's that address again? by Speare · · Score: 3, Funny

    1. Visit the Oakland County real estate records.
    2. ...
    3. Profit!!

    Oh, wrong joke. Can the guys who are collecting a few tons of AOL CDs please drop them off at THAT house, not back to Virginia? Thank you.

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  10. Re:Could someone please confirm... by jht · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's handy. Not that I'd advocating it, of course, but wouldn't that be a ideal fake address to use if you had to use one registering for a pr0n site?

    Just a thought...

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  11. Re:Open In Case Of Slashdot Effect... by mpe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nice house. I'd like to throw him a housewarming party.

    How warm?

  12. SPAM CANNON by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ok,
    I was talking with a colleague about the best scatter deliver system for spam, the meat.

    In terms of High Volume/High Pressure, we have decided that the best delivery mechanism would be via truck using the same sort of spray device that grass maintenance companies use.

    Anyone happen to have a source for bulk quantities of SPAM(the meat)?