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AOL Cans 1 billion Spams In One Day
linuxwrangler writes "AOL announced today that its spam filters hit the 1 billion reject mark for a 24 hour period. This is an average of 28 rejects per day per member. In addition, AOL spam engineers say they receive 5.5 million spam submissions each day from AOL users. Other reports here(1) and here(2)."
...only 15 originated outside of AOHell in the first place.
Are they responsible for creating the spam, or stopping it?
If you get an error, type "OVERRIDE" or "SECURITY OVERRIDE" and then try the optimize command again.
I can see it now:
*bing*You got mail!
"You have 10 new messages"
"You have 293 rejected messages"
...I'll procrastinate tomorrow...
To measure the LEGIT email going through AOL?
I had a sucky sig.
How do you apply for a job like that? And why was it I immediately thought of that putrid spam in a can when I read that.. Ugg...
And it is under the most correct section: Your Rights Online.
Today 1 billion voices were silenced. This is not some make believe movie where Alderan gets blown up. It is about the actual usurpation of the Freedom of Speech.
AOL has taken it upon themselves to decide for their users what is appropriate speech and what is not. That is sad. If you think Microsoft is taking away your freedoms because they own 90%+ in the OS market it is time to recheck your bad guys. AOL has just proven itself to be an enemy to Free Speech. That is a much more grave violation of your rights online than anything Microsoft has ever done.
The laughable part of all this is that AOL is the biggest real-world spammer with their tons and tons of CDs that have to be dumped into landfills every year.
Fuck you AOL for making yourself judge, jury, and executioner of the First Amendment.
I have been pwned because my
I have to know why you're asking your Mom if she'd like to add three or four inches to her penis length.
103 which were okayed by AOL because they made the company more money.
But how do I block the 1 billion AOL CD's I get each year?
The following statement is false.
The previous statement is true.
Welcome to my world.
... I really did want to know how to please my partner with a bigger... Damn you for foiling my plans, Steve Case! \
Oh wait... you're not even there to blame anymore! Blast!
"PC Load Letter? What the $@#% does that mean?!"
Does this mean I'm gonna get screwed on my mortgage and have to settle for an average sized penis?
... we were allowed to physically punch a spammer for each piece of spam we get (remember that line up of people in the movie Airplane waiting to smack some sense into the panicky woman? ;) )
Well, a guy can dream, can't he?
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Now my penis enlagrement products won't be drowned out by useless spam.
Bah...any rights you have on the Internet were endowed by Al Gore.
Unfortunately, complaints about unwanted email are considered spam by the filters and never actually reach support@aol.com.
Virtue finds and chooses the mean.
Aristotle, Ethica Nichomachea
I myself have over forty free AOL CDs tacked up on my wall to serve as a mirror.
No, no, no, I think you are being slightly confused, that is not the way, AOL CD's are not an effective way to create a mirror, if you want to find a proper way, look here , which should take you through the necessary steps to build the AOL server for your mirror.
Now, if someone could get this Apache to stop serving pages and get me a goddamn drink, I would be happy.
Seriously, now... I always click on the Microsoft ads and then hit the back button once their page finishes loading. It creates extra loads on their web servers. It probably costs them something. It makes them think that people are actually interested in their shit (as opposed to the realistic fact that people only use their shit because they're forced to), etc. And I'm sure that the good guys, like the folks at OSDN, benefit from people like me clicking on Microsoft's stupid ads.
*shaking head*
psxndc
The emacs religion: to be saved, control excess.
Good for AOL and their subscribers. But I think I have a simpler way to block a billion spam messages/day: just go to Alan Ralsky's house and cut all his datalines?
I demand an explanation!!!
All captured spam is sent to a giant warehouse in Arizona for processing. There, through amazing manipulation by ex-Netscape engineers, the messages are turned in AOL free demo CDs -- it takes about 15 messages to make a single one-billion-hours-free CD -- and then shipped for distribution to all 50 states and overseas. Thus, each piece of spam is repurposed and recycled. They try not lot a single go to waste, but quite obviously, they can hardly keep up.
I don't know what the X means, but the P stands for "Piece Of Crap"
I assume you're talking about "XP".
XP stands for Jesus Christ. When the Emperor Constantine fought for control of the western roman empire at the Milvian bridge in 312, he supposedly saw the sign "Chi-Rho" (Greek Letters X and P) in the sky, along with hearing a voice which said "in this sign, you will conqueror". Chi-Rho, the way it is usually depicted in ancient artwork, is an X super-imposed on a P. Chi and Rho are the first two letters of the Greek name for Christ, pronounced "Kreestos".
Hence, where we get "X-mas". I once heard a baptist preacher say that x-mas was bad because they were crossing out christ, x-ing him out. This is stupid - since the 500's X has been a sign for Christ.
Hence, WindowsXP is really Windows, version christ.
sig?
Wish I could remember where I heard that. Searched google for it, and found this,
So I still don't know who wrote it, but at least I got a good laugh re-reading the whole piece.- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Subject: [Slashdot] Metamoderation Results
From: slashdot@slashdot.org
To: xxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx
<snip>
Some of your past moderations have been meta-moderated by other Slashdot readers. Here are the exciting results:
<snip>
You have received this message because you subscribed to it on Slashdot.
<snip>
SPAM: Spamnix identified this message as spam. This report shows which
SPAM: rules matched the message and how many points each rule contributed.
SPAM:
SPAM: Content analysis details: (6.7 hits, 4 required)
SPAM: NO_REAL_NAME (0.5 points) From: does not include a real name
SPAM: CLICK_BELOW (1.5 points) BODY: Asks you to click below
SPAM: EXCUSE_1 (2.3 points) BODY: Gives a lame excuse about why you were sent this SPAM
SPAM: FREQ_SPAM_PHRASE (2.4 points) Contains phrases frequently found in spam
SPAM: [score: 10, hits: click here, help you, received]
SPAM: [this, thank you, this message, you]
SPAM: [for]
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When I grow up, I want to be a kid again.
Much like alcohol;
AOL - both the problem
and the solution.
Karma: pi (Mostly due to circular reasoning in posts).