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I, Spammer

PCOL writes "The Washington Post is reporting on testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation by Ronald Scelson, an eighth-grade dropout and self-taught computer programmer from Louisiana, who claims that he sends between 120 million and 180 million e-mails every 12 hours, that he can break sophisticated software filters 24 hours after they are deployed, and that he has no choice but to resort to forging the sender information in his bulk e-mail so he can be anonymous and maintain his connection to the Internet. He added that he obtained all his addresses legally and that AOL gladly sold him the company's entire customer directory which Ted Leonsis, vice chairman of AOL, did not deny." It's a tough life. Here's another story about the Senate committee meeting.

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  1. Me Tarzan, you Jane? by termos · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I, Spammer, you Tarzan. We be in same intelligence level.

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  2. Re:SPAMHAUS Record on Scelson by nochops · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I concur. I traveled through Slidell a few times myself on the way to or from New Orleans.

    If I recall there was a horrid sulfer / rotten egg smell blanketing the whole town.

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  3. Re:Uhhh.. by be-fan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

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  4. Re:Another bad Slashdot analogy by JSkills · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ah hahaha!

    Very funny- I'd mod that up if I could.

  5. Re:Not quite... by DunbarTheInept · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is your time worth money? Is space in your physical mailbox limited? Do you ever send first-class mail? Then you *do* pay for bulk snail-mail.

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  6. Re:Uhhh.. by Estevan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Unless you use the AOL CD as an artificial vagina,

    Hmmm, with a little velveta cheese .... that could work.