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HOWTO: Annoy a Spammer
Bob writes "I think everyone by now has heard of the millionaire spammer Alan Ralsky. Here's a follow-up to the previous story. It seems that since the story was posted, people have signed him up for every advertising campaign and mailing list out there. And he doesn't like it." They're talking about this Slashdot story.
First it's Friday and now this?
Im spamming you all to make me a druglord! By sending you here...
at least I think thats how many Dos methods exist at this point.
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Just look at his silly face on the photo near this article.
!you a bad coward!
I found my inner child, then I got caught abusing it...
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the organism you are looking for can not be found
the organism may be experiencing technical difficulty or large volumes of mail traffic
(Enforcing the 404 compliance standard for all heavily spammed out sites.)
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how are expecting a lot of important emails when 90% of the email you get every day is junk? did that important someone forget about you? sorry, i just don't see your logic, your stupidity is clear.
This physical reverse spamming is really the ultimate in passive-aggressiveness, and should not be supported.
... it is not yet illegal, and nobody has any right to interfere with this guy's physical mail service because they are so upset about clicking "delete" on messages they don't want. By sending him tonnes of physical mail, nothing is accomplished. Not only that, there are many downsides. To wit:
Look, I recognize that Ralsky might not be someone you'd invite to dinner. I recognize that spam is annoying. I fully realize that it is unsolicited garbage.
But come on people
1. It is environmentally irresponsible in the extreme. All that paper is being wasted because you don't like clicking a mouse 20 more times a day? Seems more than a little selfish.
2. It is in fact illegal. Impersonating someone else in order to sign them up to receive mail is mail fraud.
3. It is a waste of the time and resources of the companies that send out the spam and the people who have to deliver it. Ever think of them? Why should the reverse spammers have the right to use companies' resources and the resources of the public postal service to further their own agenda? Isn't this just what you accuse Ralsky of doing when he "steals bandwidth"?
4. It is a disproportionate response. Because you have to delete some emails each day that takes you all of a few minutes, the appropriate response is to totally shut down one particular spammer's ability to read his own relevant physical mail by ensuring he must sift through thousands of pieces each day? That is absurd.
5. It is totally ineffective. If you have a complaint about receiving spam, take it up with your elected officials. THEY are the ones to stop it. So long as money can be made in this entirely legal business, no matter how annoying it is, there will always be someone who spams. If not Ralsky, then someone else. So even stopping Ralsky (which this surely will not do) does nothing to stop spam, because there will always be someone to deliver a message that a company is paying to have delivered.
And finally, about the comments regarding the "spammer's lawyer" being some low form of life, just remember that everyone in free nations under the rule of law has the right to legal representation. If we ever get to a point in our society where an individual's right to be heard in court (and make no mistake, you cannot effectively represent yourself in court) is judged in advance by the public on the moral value we perceive their case to have, then I don't want to be living in that society.
So to sum, get off your soapboxes and high horses before you all break your necks. This isn't pretty, it isn't effective, and it isn't ethical, no matter how much you may titter away at seeing someone you dislike punished.
~ M
Thank you for grounding that pontificating idiot. I have been the beneficiary of good will and goof treatment, and i try to give back. I don't his denigration of the western world rhetoric. Go live on a farm, butthead, no one is stopping you. And you can fornicate with Laura Ingles and have an Amish family.
All politics are local, make things pleasant around you, and if everyone does it, it manifests on a grand scale. This top down legislation of morality from figures and soap box artists like the aforementioned deacon of moral authority fucks it up worse. Your moral-mettling is the problem.
This idiot stumbled like one poster said on a Rand novel, but his ruminations plain suck.
And I get sick of this anti corporate and anti rich people drivel. My health care is paid by the companies I work for, and I've been given generous tips and opportunities by rich folk in this life. I don't buy your gloom and doom terminator 2 movie crap. Everyone I know who is doing well is hardworking and a bit lucky, and they feel lucky because they were endorsed by someone, probably better off than themselves, and this was the inroad to their success. Kissing a little ass and then performing when you get your foot in the door does wonders to one's lifestyle.
We aren't good, we aren't evil, we JUST ARE. Chew on that for a while. I've seen people that make me sick, and that make me happy. Surround yourself with those that make you happy, crack a beer, fuck a lover, and be fucking glad you aren't starving to death, have a keyboard to type shit on and aren't getting bombed or forced into labor.
Now chew on this, , and there is an approaching black hole [GRO J1655-40] which could swallow earth in a little as 6000 years, thank you Hubble Telescope [the symbol of CORPORATE GREED right? Not.], and many, many extinction level events possible in the near future, with nuclear war probably the LEAST likely to wipe life on earth away. This is all coming, inevitably - if not in a human time frame, in a geological time frame, if not geological, then it's a guaranteed certainty in the universal time frame. We better focus on getting off the third rock from the Sun and stop fucking around so much or our whole civilization, existence, way of life, our genetic code, our will to survive will be preempted, extinguished, put out to pasture, end, finito, gone. And we will be space dust with no one to tell our story and no way of any other sentient life of finding out. Ashes to ashes, baby. This is where we all hope [secretly] there s a God, otherwise it's cold and dark, and we are fucking around with precious little time.
I would post as me, but since this isnt a me too post and its critical of some sap who got a +5 from groupthinkers, I'll go AC. Sorry.
All politics are local, make things pleasant around you, and if everyone does it, it manifests on a grand scale. This top down legislation of morality from figures and soap box artists like the aforementioned deacon of moral authority fucks it up worse. Your moral-mettling is the problem.
This idiot stumbled like one poster said on a Rand novel, but his ruminations plain suck.
And I get sick of this anti corporate and anti rich people drivel. My health care is paid by the companies I work for, and I've been given generous tips and opportunities by rich folk in this life. I don't buy your gloom and doom terminator 2 movie crap. Everyone I know who is doing well is hardworking and a bit lucky, and they feel lucky because they were endorsed by someone, probably better off than themselves, and this was the inroad to their success. Kissing a little ass and then performing when you get your foot in the door does wonders to one's lifestyle.
We aren't good, we aren't evil, we JUST ARE. Chew on that for a while. I've seen people that make me sick, and that make me happy. Surround yourself with those that make you happy, crack a beer, fuck a lover, and be fucking glad you aren't starving to death, have a keyboard to type shit on and aren't getting bombed or forced into labor.
Now chew on this, there are gigantic asteroids routinely passing by at a distance less than between the earth and moon, and there is an approaching black hole [GRO J1655-40] which could swallow earth in a little as 6000 years, thank you Hubble Telescope [the symbol of CORPORATE GREED right? Not.], and many, many extinction level events possible in the near future, with nuclear war probably the LEAST likely to wipe life on earth away. This is all coming, inevitably - if not in a human time frame, in a geological time frame, if not geological, then it's a guaranteed certainty in the universal time frame. We better focus on getting off the third rock from the Sun and stop fucking around so much or our whole civilization, existence, way of life, our genetic code, our will to survive will be preempted, extinguished, put out to pasture, end, finito, gone. And we will be space dust with no one to tell our story and no way of any other sentient life of finding out. Ashes to ashes, baby. This is where we all hope [secretly] there s a God, otherwise it's cold and dark, and we are fucking around with precious little time.