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NZ Spammer Shutdown Makes Big Difference
lump writes "A notorious spammer, based in New Zealand, who had his name and other personal info released first in a national newspaper, and then on the web, has shut down his operation, citing harassment. What interests me about this case is that, in the 5 or 6 days since he has supposedly stopped operating, I personally have had one (1) spam email, to an address which had previously averaged around fifty per day. Colleagues report a similar reduction in spam. All I can say is 'excellent.' Hate to say it, but in this case, vigilante type action seems to have had the desired result. This needs to be publicised, as anything which slows down spam can only be a good thing."
Does that mean we can only look forward to baked-beans?
Sounds like we're about to enter the times of the Wild Wild Web, where vigilantism and marshal law run wild....sounds like fun to me!
... I haven't seen much spam in my inbox lately. But yet spam from my hotmail account is just the same, damn Microsoft for using their hotmail users as a spam whore for money. :P
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Catburglary is down. In other news, vicious sack beatings up 300%
there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got much spam in it.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
I was so naive.
As I have this in /etc/postfix/body_checks /^Penis/ REJECT /^penis/ REJECT /^Pindick/ REJECT
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I could help you with that--just tell me where to forward the junk i get.
Come to think of it, give me the real email address of a spammer.
I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
Its not all bad. At least his children will never know the embarrasments of having a small penis.
DEAR SIR/MADAM,
MY NAME IS MOHAMMED YASSIN NGABE CURRENTLY PROVIDING INTERNET SERVICE TO SEVERAL WELL KNOWN SPAMMERS. I KNOW THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD NO PREVIOUS COMMUNICATIONS OR BUSINESS DEALINGS BEFORE NOW.
DUE TO A RECENT UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT INVOLVING A GARDEN WEASEL AND MY LARGE BOWEL, I CAN NO LONGER PROVIDE ACCESS TO THESE UPSTANDING ENTREPENEURS. AS A RESULT I MUST REGRETFULLY DISPOSE MYSELF OF THE SPAMHOSTING BUSINESS AND GIVE THE ADDRESSES AND NAMES OF SEVENTY-TWO (72) SERIAL SPAMMERS TO A WORTHY REPLACEMENT HOST.
DUE TO THE SENSITIVE NATURE OF THESE ADDRESSES, AND THE SENSITIVE NATURE OF THE GROSSLY ENLARGED PENISES OF THE SPAMMERS THEMSELVES, I MUST EXCERCISE THE UTMOST DISCRETION IN GIVING AWAY THESE ADDRESSES.
TO ESTABLISH YOUR GOOD FAITH IN THIS TRANSACTION, YOU MUST FIRST SEND ME YOUR NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS(ES), SHAMPOO BRAND PREFERENCE, AND PENIS SIZE.
KINDLY TREAT THIS REQUEST AS VERY IMPORTANT AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. I HONESTLY ASSURE YOU THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL AND RISK-FREE.
MOHAMMED YASSIN NGABE, ESQ.
LAGOS, NIGERIA
Ummm.... so? It's like the word BOXEN. And Beowulf cluster jokes... and Soviet Russia jokes...
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Stories posted in the YRO section should have an option to moderate comments as "Paranoid".
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Hate to say it, but in this case, vigilante type action seems to have had the desired result.
This is hardly vigilantism - people called to complain (aside from a few kooks who made death threats) about his actions and how it affected them. The spammer realized the error of his ways.
Now, getting a dozen geeks with baseball bats together and beating a few spammers, while fun, would be vigilantism.
I don't think the drop in spam is because of this guy in New Zealand, I think its due to AOL's new spam busting software! Go AOL!
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Hmm let's see - an anonymous coward uses a subject line of "Me too" to provide a brief anecdote about noticing an unspecified decrease in spam received during an approximated timeframe, then speculates on attributing this to an untested hypothesis, and gets moderated "+4, Informative".
Come on - you know you wanna blockquote me now, and get a +5, Funny for saying "You're new here, aren't you"...
"If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password." KB Q293834
If you hadn't bought the penis enlargmenent pills you wouldn't be on their sucker list.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Today was the first day in over 5 years I've actually recieved more real e-mail than spam, and I have my fellow countrymen and geeks to thank for it.
So, to paraphrase Homer Simpson: "To New Zealand; the cause of, and solution to, most of the net's spam".
Looks can be deceiving. Or CAN they?
Just in case the authoritys do not properly deal with this miserable excuse for a human being, i put foward this offer to you.
Send me money and i will personaly travel down to this persons house, beat him over the head with a sack full of 'delete' keys.
Then i will tape him down to a chair, and make him count from 1, to the number of spam emails he has sent out.
I hate people who give New Zealand a bad name. shame on them. We should deport them back to australia.
Si.
See...I never thought about sending a spammer paper spam, but I think you could do one better than that. Call the Jehovah's Witnesses and tell them the guy is interested in talking to them :}
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You've been here for some time, haven't you...
Perhaps marklar should just call them marklar.
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I was beginning to think something was wrong with my email..
... its ... wierd ...
Im so used to seeing them flood in, when i DONT get anything
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now I don't have to put away my pitchforks and torches that I got out of storage for SCO.