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Spammer Ducks For Cover

Posted by michael on from the everyone-loves-spam dept.

rabidgremlin writes "The New Zealand Herald has an article about a NZ based spammer who has shut up shop after being at the receiving end of an anti-spam campaign. Good riddance I say, but some of his comments ("never intended to break any regulations" and "I'll just stick to search engines and web sites - that's still plenty of fun and money.") had me wondering if he and other spammers are as really naive as the article makes out."

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  1. Re:Booo-hooo by The+Bungi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oh, and here's one of the abuse-sightings posts that probably did him in (Google thread).

  2. Change of Heart? by z3ngine · · Score: 5, Informative

    This latest report shows a big change of heart from his comments of a few days ago:

    "If you don't want to receive spam, don't connect to the Internet, or don't have an e-mail address." - Shane Atkinson, 15th Aug 2003.

    See the full story here [stuff.co.nz].


    64% of all statistics are totally useless.
    z3ngine.
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    I therefore think I am.