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Spamfighters Get A Hold Of Spammers' Incoming Mail

Karin Spaink writes "On July 3 2003, cyberangels.nl was obtained by Spamvrij.nl, a Dutch foundation fighting spam. Previously, the domain was owned by the infamous Cyberangels, who are majorly involved in spamming. Cyberangels felt forced to drop the domain when the ground under their feet got too hot after BBC journalist Andrew Bomford connected Dutch ISP Megaprovider to Cyberangels. Since the MX-records for cyberangels.nl now point to spamvrij.nl too, they get all Cyberangels' incoming mail: bounces, spam complaints and what have you. Have a peek: what kind of mail does a major spammer receive in the course of three days? By now, they have a very precise answer: 6305 mails. Spamvrij.nl published an analysis of those mails on its site."

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  1. kjsd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fpfpfpf!

  2. Re:Been there, done that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    This gave me some legal leverage

    Waaah! Now whenever I read/hear leverage I get flashbacks to Battlefield Earth! Damn you $cientology, I want those hours back!

  3. Re:Errr...isn't this illegal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OH COME ON!!!!! Learn to speak modren english for crisakes!!!! Your = You're. Same difference. Why does there need to be a distinction if they sound the same and everyone picks up infor mation by context these days anyway. I mean hell!

    I kould rite lyke this and evrywon wood knoe whut eye was sae-eeng.

    It's all about the root meaning, not the language. That is the new approach. Get used to it because your going to see more of it as time goes on. It's liberation from control freaks that should have dyed out in with the Victorians. Those fucks were pretty worthless and did nothing to speed along the development of technology. On the other hand, there are plenty of really great minds that can't spell or punctuate worth a dick. That's OK, because it doesn't matter as long as the idea is carried across. I mean seriously! Are you THAT stupid that you need to see words spelled out correctly and puntuation followed otherwise you can't make out the meaning of a sentence? If so. You might as well jump off a bridge.

  4. Re:Virii? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First of:

    First rule of spelling/grammar flames - there's always a spelling/grammar error in them.

  5. Re:Errr...isn't this illegal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It's all about the root meaning, not the language.

    Hell... For that matter.. Why don't you write your own language and tell everyone to jump off a bridge too if they don't want to jump on the asshole bandwagon of 2 year old gibberish. Some people appreciate standardization and don't mind conforming to sensible language semantics.

    One root meaining I was able to distinguish out of your little rant is that you have no respect for anything besides yourself. You probably sit on the couch all day sucking down one of the new upside down 7-ups and drink it because it's something different from the norm rather than the taste. You most likely don't like anything that is accomplished using a standard that wasn't written by yourself. I'd be quick not to use your standard as a matter of fact because if you started making standards and they caught on you'd lose control of them and then start making new standards for everyone to follow because you want to be in control which means there wouldn't be any stability due to ever changing standards. The lack of stability would cause you to fail just like you do now in every aspect of life.

    Language semantics are in place to try to reduce ambiguity which in turn will help everyone understand each other. Instead you'd rather have someone call you a "returd". Hmm... Did I mean "Tard" or "Turd".... does Turd mean "a piece of crap" or something else? I like both meanings. You are now a mental midget that is reprocessed crap! Or wait.. can that mean something else?

    If you ever get married (Or stop getting divorced) maybe it'll be because you learn that people are much like computer protocols that need very precise language semantics to properly communicate.

    On the other hand, there are plenty of really great minds that can't spell or punctuate worth a dick.

    ... And are limited because of it. If they had communicated in a well defined language and gotten their idea across faster, they would have increased their output of Ideas... Also, there are probably a plethora of great minds out there that don't take the time to learn how to communicate which causes them to be hung out in the breeze...

    True liberation comes when you learn to communicate like everyone else... *shrug*