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FTC vs. Open SMTP Relays

Posted by michael on from the because-we-care dept.

HighOrbit writes "Cnet reports on news.com.com that The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, several state Attorneys General, and Australia, Canada and Japan are sending this letter (pdf) to operators of open relay mail servers to educate them on the dangers of open relays and how they help spread spam. Although the letter does not threaten direct law enforcement action, it does let open relayers know that they have been noticed and warned. The threat of being blacklisted has not worked yet, so will this finally convince mail server admins to shut down those open relays?"

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  1. Hey! by big_groo · · Score: -1, Troll
    Log in you retard...don't you know its:

    Karma Burn Fridays on /.

    Terrance: Shut your fucking face uncle fucka You're a cock sucking ass licking uncle fucka You're an uncle fucka, yes its true Nobody fucks uncles quite like you

    Phillip: Shut your fucking face uncle fucka You're the one that fucked your uncle, uncle fucka You dont eat or sleep or mow the lawn, You just fuck your uncle all day long

    (fart noises)

    Terrance: Hmm!

    (fart noises)

    (laughing)

    (fart)

    Dudley Dooright guy: What's going on here?

    (fart noises)

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    T & P:Shut your fucking face uncle fucka (Terrance: uncle fucka)

    Terrance: You're a boner biting bastard uncle fucka

    Phillip: You're an uncle fucka I must say

    Terrance: Well you fucked your uncle yesterday Everyone: (laughing)

    People: Uncle fucka... thats

    Everyone: U-N-C-L-E fuck you Uncle Fuckaaaaaaaaaaaaa tonight...

    Phillip: ...Suck my balls!

    1. Re:Hey! by Angry+White+Guy · · Score: -1, Troll

      How exactly do Karma Burn Fridays work? Do I post logged in and hope I get modded down as offtopic or redundant? Or is it something more sinister?

      --
      You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
    2. Re:Hey! by big_groo · · Score: -1, Troll
      Well, to begin with you need to brush up on a bit of research. I recommend starting here.

      Just so we don't /. this fabulous site, i've kindly pasted the contents here for your viewing.

      Section 1 - Trolling techniques

      There are techniques used by successful trolls to elicit the maximum amount of responses from unthinking /.ers. This section is dedicated to explaining how to use these in the course of your trolls. Remember though, a great troll can break any or all of these and still be successful...

      * Timing

      Because you're posting as an AC, your troll will generally be ignored in favour of posters using their accounts, and so getting in early is essential. A good guideline is to get into the first 20 posts, so that people reading the article will see the troll before it is swamped out. One way of increasing the speed with which you get your troll into play is to prepare them beforehand, and then quickly customise them for the current article. This is easier than it sounds since /. typically repeats stories with small variations and runs lots of similar stories.

      Note that this is why Jon Katz stories are pretty worthless as trolling material - by the time you've found the article and prepared a troll there's already 50+ posts on it, most of them flaming Jon Katz anyway :)
      * Exposure

      Once you've got your troll in, you need people to actually read it. You also want replies - /.ers are more likely to read your troll if it starts a large thread. You also want to remember that some people have set their comment thresholds to values higher than 0 - to get the attention of these you either want to get your post moderated up (see Style, below) or get a reply which gets moderated up to 4 or 5, in which case your troll becomes visible to all.
      * Accounts

      An alternative to the time-honoured tradition of AC trolling is that of creating a "troll" account. This gives you the advantage of posting at 1 rather than 0, and slashbots are more likely to take you seriously, especially if you at least sound reasonable. If you do this, try to avoid posting stuff where it is obvious you're a troll under the account - post it anoymously instead - some slightly more canny readers actually check your user info before they reply. Not many though :)

      The ultimate goal of the troll account is to secure the +1 bonus, which is currently received once you hit 26 points of Karma. To get there, employ the techniques of karma whoring that we see every day on /. and watch the karma roll in. And of course once you get the +1 bonus, the world is your oyster in terms of /. Posts made at a default of 2 hit even those people with the threshold of 2, are more likely to get moderated up even further if they are at all coherent, and people tend to lose their critical thinking abilities in the face of the +1 bonus. Milk it for all it's worth.
      * Layout

      To get people reading it a troll needs to be easily readable. Make sure you break it down into easily digestible paragraphs, use HTML tags where appropriate (but always make sure you close them properly) and use whitespace appropriately.
      * Size

      Generally a troll shouldn't be too short, otherwise it'll get lost in the crowd. A workable minimum is a couple of medium paragraphs. Conversely, it shouldn't be too long, or no-one will bother to read it. Keep it to a happy medium.
      * Spelling

      Whilst spelling is important if you want the troll to be taken "seriously", key spelling mistakes can draw out the spelling zealots, especially if you mis-spell the name of a venerated /. hero, like Linus Torveldes or Richard Strawlman (thanks dmg). Related to this is the use of the wrong word, explaining an

  2. Re: US knows best by MonsieurPiedlourde · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually it is good that they are doing this. If this is the US telling the world that they are right, well good for them. They are right.

    I noticed that Canada is supporting them on this. This makes up for us not supporting the war, right? (looks sheepishly south across the border...)

  3. robbIE waNTed for FraUD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  4. Re:OMFG YOU ARE ONE STUPID SLASHBOT MOTHERFUCKER! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  5. Re:US SUCKS AT DIPLOMACY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    admit it ! now !.

  6. I WILL GRIND YOUR LOSER FACE IN A PILE OF MY SHIT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You will SUFFER you little faggot BOYFUCKER! You suck so much BOY COCK you qualify as a Hall of Fame Slashdot Editor!