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Ask ISP Owner Barry Shein About the Spam Wars
Spam sucks. But it's worse for ISPs than for the rest of us, because they get bounces and complaints and other behind-the-scenes spam-caused messes the rest of us don't see. AOL talks of spam as "public enemy number one." Barry Shein, who started (and still runs) the world's first full-service dialup ISP, likens spammers to organized criminals, and calls spam "an organized, vicious, sociopathic thing" in this article, which spurred an interesting Slashdot discussion. So what should we do about spam? Ask Barry. One question per post, please. We'll post his answers to 10 of the highest-moderated questions sometime in the next week or so.
What is your e-mail address? I promise I will not sell it to third parties.
If you could meet a spammer, what would you say? What would you do? What caliber would you use? Would you want someone to do it for you? Is $10,000 a head too much?
Would you like to consolidate your student loans while watching my 18 year old roomate take a shower, and then purchase some long distance phone cards?
Pollution and nuclear waste at least have some benefit to society. Pollution at least means that either someone got to where they needed to go, or some useful product was created. Nuclear waste means that an effecient method of producing electricity was used. Spam just means that someone has a permenant 12-inch stiffy and has given all of their money to Nigeria.
(Disclaimer:of course, this is said firmly tongue in cheek, I don't approve or condone physical violence against spammers, etc. etc. yadda yadda yadda)... =)
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
who will be up against the wall first?
A) Spammers
B) the IRS
C) Lawyers
D) Microsoft Lawyers
So what should we do about spam? Ask Barry.
Kill them. Seriously, knee cap them and let them die from the blood loss, and maybe arrange for enough telemarketers to flood their house with calls that they can't possibly get an open line to 911.
Secure dildonics, not to be confused with the OS named Dildonix, is a new security system based on anus authentication. Secure authentication to enter buildings and purchase food at vending machines and so forth is just as easy as dropping your pants, turning around, and spreading your cheeks toward the special anus camera. If you don't hear a beep, it may be necessary to really rip your anus wide open to give the camera a good look, but it's all for security.
I have foudn that once I get a physical mail address to a domain and indicate that I ma 30 minutes away and will visit with my pfist that the spam stops..
How effective is this type of Physical threat towards spammers?
Caution: This doesn't work on Nigerian spammers..
Don't Tread on OpenSource
can i interest you in some human growth hormone? guaranteed organic!
Whenever I get a spam message I just look for the remove me link. I then look to which URL that takes me to. Do a whois and fight out there support email. Then I sign them up for every spam service/newletter possible including there own.
Also anytime I go to a website that asks for an email address I like to use support@[theirwebsite].com that always makes me feel a little better.