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Spammer Hangout's Membership Roster Left Exposed
MikeCapone writes "According to an article at Wired News, spammers feel the need to be part of a community too. The Bulk Club is one such community. A message on the site states that it offers, for a $20 monthly fee, a variety of how-to articles, spamming software, a members' message board area, and 300,000 FRESH e-mails/week. Unsurprisingly, the 'Law & Ethics' section is 'Members Only.' The good part is that, because of a glitch, the membership list of this charming organization was left exposed on the website."
There is an ethical justification in being given no option (by the enemy) to defend yourself in ways other than using unethical means in order to protect yourself and your loved ones. These particular types of enemy tend to be called "truly evil" because they make you break your own morals to fight them.
e.g. having to shoot a person so that he doesn't shoot you.
"Turn the other cheek" doesn't cut it with certain types of enemies. They know this, and you know this.
http://pcblues.com - Digits and Wood
I'm a little surprised nobody pointed out that their webserver is running on Windows 2000 + IIS 5.
I thought about that, but then I figured it would be insane. We would be supplying them with our email addresses. I get spam, but I don't get that much. A move like this would surely increase the spam in my box.
Question everything.
Regardless,
I beg your pardon?
This is the Network that belongs to the People. These are the people that are abusing the network.
I don't have a sense of decency when it comes to dirty, nasty, polluters that break laws or attempt to break laws.
If it had been a list of alcoholics or political dissidents no one would have any business posting their names anywhere. This is a list of people who can each be charged with trespassing or attempted trespassing, and our government refuses to charge them with these crimes. Now I'm not saying I'M going to go vigilanti on their collective ass, but I'm more than willing to turn a blind eye to anyone who does.
Buttsex.
A spammer is someone who comes to your house every day and rings the doorbell every 37 seconds. He makes it difficult for you to go outside because when you do, he'll pin advertisements for Viagra and get-rich-quick schemes all over your clothes. After a while, your mail carrier may not even show up at your house, for fear of this miscreant.
Spammers hide behind legalities, but they are profoundly immoral, in the sense that they don't give a damn about what their actions do to the larger community. The irony is that they are busy bringing down the very edifice that allows them to conduct these activities.
Alchoholics are sick people who can be cured.
Political dissidents may have views I disagree with, but they're not forcing me to listen to them.
Spammers are just people who don't give a damn about anyone else, and are willing to make money off of crippling a mechanism that millions of people depend on every day.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
Gosh, wouldn't it be awful if this git was buried in paper mail the way that Ralsky was a few months back?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
"No, they're not. As long as they don't forge headers or falsely advertise (under the false advertising laws), they're not breaking the law."
Yes they ARE! Clearly, using an open mail relay is theft, no matter how irresponsible the mail admin is (and this is still how most spam gets sent today). However, even if they're not...
Your ISP is paying real amounts of money for bandwidth. Not dial-up or DSL connections, but really big pipes that they share amongst their subscribers. They're also paying for disk space to store their customers' mail.
Now if spam takes up 20% of their bandwidth and 40% of their mail spooler's disk space before they have an opportunity to filter it, who do you think pays for it?
You do. And I do. Our monthly costs are in effect renting a tiny fragment of the resources of the internet, and roughly a third of the internet is now spam. (email and newsgroups, which translates to bandwidth, time, computing power, and storage)
Spammers do NOT pay for their bandwidth! If they did, then spam wouldn't be a problem.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Of course it would be wrong!
[ true ] returns 0 because true is indeed an existent argument to [. Which is really not the intended application of [. while true is much more to the point. while : makes you look even more savvy.
[Shakes head] Why not wget -O /dev/null URL ? Or better yet, curl -o /dev/null URL ?
Let's look at this again:
Ahh, much better!
I think that it would be more fun to have the FROM addres be one of the other spammers -- at least that way, they get a valid email address :-)
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