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Fighting the Hydra -- A Spam Warrior's Tale
Selanit writes "Salon has an interesting article about the battle against spam from the viewpoint of Suresh Ramasubramanian, a sysadmin working in Hong Kong. His most interesting complaint concerns the fragmentation of anti-spam forces: not only does he have to deal with spammers, but also with anti-spammers who assume because his company is Chinese that he isn't doing anything about spam. Hmm ... decentralized opponents striking from the shadows against quarreling allies. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?"
... decentralized opponents striking from the shadows against quarreling allies. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?
Yes, it's like the horde of trolls striking while other people are trying to discuss the subject at hand.
Hmm ... decentralized opponents striking from the shadows against quarreling allies. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?
I don't know if this is a "Lord of the Rings" reference or a "War on Saddam" reference.
Tell me about it. I got so fed up with my spam that when I changed my ISP I made damn sure nobody I didn't want to hear from had my address. One travel firm (an Asian outfit) managed to get my address anyway, but I haven't heard from them since I put up a little web-page at Tripod saying "I am willing to opt-in to all bulk or commercial mail at..." and listed all of their contact addresses I could find.
Childish, I know, but it did the trick.
Think about it...the dictionary spammers have not gotten as far as sramasubramanian@hotmail.com
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How about Allies for Silencing Spam?
Southpark's cartman screaming "Cripple fight!!" comes to mind
I knew Suresh Ramasubramaniam personally a long time ago when he worked for Intel. Wow, I had no idea he was into spam-waring know.
Caution to all would-be spammers: Suresh is a guns and rifles enthusiast and has a very nice collection of assorted weapons and ammunition. Who knows what he might do to a spammer as a last resort...
I have found a truly wonderful proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, but unfortunately this sig is too small to contain it.
Suresh Ramasubramaniam must be a very comm... Right. As you were.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
Which, of course, raises the possibility of dropping "bunker busters" on the offices of spammers. ;-)
I fully support this idea.
--- Ban humanity.
Then again, I work for a shitty ISP whose main userbase is the scum of the earth from every backwoods trailer park in the US that other ISPs won't touch.
You work for AOL? I am so sorry. Humans should not have to do that.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.