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NZ Spammer Shutdown Makes Big Difference

Posted by timothy on from the prescription-herbal-viagra-3333nxxq1a dept.

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."

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  1. sounds like... by Spytap · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  2. No wonder... by TypoNAM · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... 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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    1. Re:No wonder... by finallyHasANickname · · Score: 4, Funny
      Otherwise they're stuck paying for the enormous bandwidth and storage costs associated with running hotmail.com and msn.com. (Yes, I know there's ad money involved, but I would wager it doesn't come close to paying for operations.)

      ::::dumb look:::: Wait. Ohhhhhhh. I know what you mean. Somebody's gotta pay the people who stand in line to step up onto the porch where the guy is standing there with his lever to let people fall through the trapdoor when the customer lady conspicuously mouths but does not audibly utter, "No!" with shoulder gesticulations after 200 focus groups have worked on tuning the ad content toward the demographic of people who are in the market to choose their first ISP. You mean like that? :-)

  3. Gott supply your own knobs by cybercuzco · · Score: 4, Funny

    Catburglary is down. In other news, vicious sack beatings up 300%

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  4. Well, by SweetAndSourJesus · · Score: 5, Funny

    there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got much spam in it.

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  5. So it wasn't AOL's spam filter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was so naive.

  6. I'm not sure about my results by nocomment · · Score: 5, Funny

    As I have this in /etc/postfix/body_checks /^Penis/ REJECT /^penis/ REJECT /^Pindick/ REJECT

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  7. Re:the "concerned father" by nlangille · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its not all bad. At least his children will never know the embarrasments of having a small penis.

  8. NEEDING YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTN PLEASE by bgeer · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  9. YRO by black+mariah · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stories posted in the YRO section should have an option to moderate comments as "Paranoid".

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  10. Re:Me too by Boiling_point_ · · Score: 4, Funny
    An AC writes:
    I really have noticed a dramatic decrease in the amount of spam I've received in the past 4-5 days. I figured it was just due to my dilligence with unsubscribing myself to mailing lists but everything just suddenly dropped off.
    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"...

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