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Eric Savage writes "The IETF, through IRTF, has formed an Anti-Spam Research Group. If there is any hope for a technical solution the problem, it appears the first significant step has been taken. More info here in itworld and here in ComputerWorld." Three more exciting spam related posts inside, including news from the Nevada legislature regarding spam, Arkansas dislike of the meaty email and "when students go bad"
torklugnutz writes "The NV state assembly just voted 41-0 in favor of a bill which allows spam recipients to collect up to $500 per piece of spam. The new law also requires ADV to be added to the subject line so that recipients can more easilly identify unwanted ads. In addition, spoofing of sender's email address or having an invalid return address is made illegal. The old law imposed a $10 fine on spammers, but required prosecuters to collect it. This law will, more than likely, increase my chances of reading the spam I get so that I can try to cash in. So, maybe I CAN make an incredible amount of money from this "Amazing Offer""
And in Arkansas: A.G. Russell writes "With House Bill 1008, Subtitled "Unsolicited Commercial and Sexually Explicit Electronic Mail Fair Practices Act." Arkansas looks to join other states that have criminal and cival legislation in place to deal with spam. Can we help them craft this?"
And from academia: mansemat writes "Seems spammers are using a new tactic these days by paying students to send spam over univeristy networks. This particular student will be disciplined by losing his computing privileges, and being educated on the policy he violated. One can only hope the education includes being subscribed to every pr0n, male enhancement, mortage, etc. spam on the planet." Should have booted the miscreant.
I just heard some sad news on Howard Stern - adult film star and free-speech advocate Ron Jeremy was found dead in his California 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 films, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
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...is all in good fun, like the syph :)
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If at first you don't succeed... How does that go again? Ah, forget it.
sort of like only brushing yOUR front teeth?
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reminds won of the whoreabull stock markup frauds still taking place on wall street of deceit, fueled buy sum of the larcenious yacht jockIEs from the ill eagle kingdumb, & IT's Godless ?pr? machine.
va lairIE's patentdead PosBlock(tm) device also comes to undermined.
lookout bullow. run for your options, should you have any left?
tha daze of the ill eagle bad toll are almost over.
nothing but gnu skies,
more details at trustworthycomputing.com
make US all into spammers, if they could.
.kingdumb email addresses, & are now researching the problem via phone contacts.
we've been having a little trouble getting through/answering email from our frIEnds who have
so far it only looks like fuddles may be planning on 'filtering' his hostages email, until they can only get spam from the kingdumb itself (learn to be a spammer offers), &/or martha stewart, eddie bauer, britney, bearsonstearno, etc,,,. it's a small wwworld after all?
djia hear the won about how now fuddles (ever the last gasper) will take monIE from folks, to turn them into mad spammers? what a scamster. Godless ?pr? FUDgePeddlers, sheesh!@#$%--
2003-03-04 20:28:07 New Snort vulnerabillity (articles,news) (rejected)
Normally, I wouldn't complain. Rather I would assume my submission was rejected because an earlier or better written one had been accepted. But, it looks like they just want to ignore this one.
Get your Snort update here.
I never sign up for anything...so if I get spam it's because the company sending it is unethical. What chance do I have that, if I ask, they will all the sudden will say "Gee, we're sorry! We honestly don't know why we spamed you in the first place!".
Case in point: I did try to unsubscribe from Staples (yep, the office store) spam mailings (through Doubleclick's spam mail).
I bent over backward and gave them the benifit of the doubt that they were somehow justified in thinking that they could spam a specific test account. So, I asked -- on line and by phone -- to have my domain removed. I did this about once every month as new spam arrived.
After a while, I informed Staples that they would be reported to Spamcop and other anti-spam services if they did not cease sending the spam. After 8 months of giving them leeway, I gave up asking.
No surprise, a few weeks after sending thier spams to spam reporting services, they stopped. So, in total, it took most of a year to get them to stop and then only after turning the screws on them. Screw Stapes. Screw Doubleclick.
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