From Artist To Spam-Hunter

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Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 30, 2003 @01:22PM from the bourgeois-distinction dept.

I am Kobayashi writes "Wired has a story about Andy Markley, a graphic artists, whose business domain name was spoofed by infamous spammer Eddy Marin and used to spam thousands of people. After the incident recurred at a new ISP, and at the risk of his business and sanity, Markley fought back. He tracked down Marin through several spoofed email addresses and several hi-jacked servers, and eventually was successful in getting Marin's current ISP to shut down his account. Too bad he was a graphic artist and not a professional bounty hunter...."

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The Spam Hunter - Crikey! by Kenja · 2003-09-30 13:27 · Score: 5, Funny

Here we see the Spammer in his native environment, lets pull his network connection and see if we can get him rialed up. Crikey, look at em dial tech support!

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1. Re:The Spam Hunter - Crikey! by k12linux · 2003-09-30 14:59 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Kenja earns the much coveted: (Score:6, Funny)
Amazing story! by antic · 2003-09-30 13:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Wow, what a revenge! This has all the exciting hallmarks of the most boring story in the world. He shut down a single ISP account. I'm stunned!

I hope the author isn't holding out for a script-writing deal for anything starring Chuck Norris or Lorenzo Lamas. It's hardly going to get rapped about by Dre, is it?

From Artist to Spam-Hunter to zzz...

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1. Re:Amazing story! by sharkey · 2003-09-30 13:41 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I hope the author isn't holding out for a script-writing deal for anything starring Chuck Norris or Lorenzo Lamas.
  No, but it seems to be prime material for Kevin Costner's next magnum.
  
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2. Re:Amazing story! by EvilAlien · 2003-09-30 14:12 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  No, his point is that they are two barely-actors, Chuck being long past his prime and reduced to crappy TV shows, and Lamas being a B-movie flunky at best.
  I've been responsible for a hell of a lot more than 1 spammer losing their Internet connections, it never occured to me to put out a press release. This is none news... I give it a 1 out of 5. Now had it involved SCO, I would have gone with 3 out of 5, because I just love reading about SCO and their wacky antics... now thats a good topic for a movie, maybe we can get Governor Schwarzenegger as Linus Torvalds and Gary Shandling as Darrrrrrllll Mc Bride.
  
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Professional Bounty Hunter by nacturation · 2003-09-30 13:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Qualified candidates must be professional bounty hunters with verifiable experience and verifiable references.

Yes, my name is Boba Fett and I worked for a Hut called Jabba -- this was a long time ago and in a remote galaxy. During my tenure with Jabba, I successfully tracked and captured Han Solo, wanted for failure to pay back a sizable loan.

I'm fully familiar with the use of various weaponry, grappling hooks, and personal rocket packs. I have also done consulting work for Mr. Vader, a well known businessman who spearheaded the creation of a large spherical space station.

References available upon request.

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1. Re:Professional Bounty Hunter by NanoGator · 2003-09-30 14:11 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "I'm fully familiar with the use of various weaponry, grappling hooks, and personal rocket packs. I have also done consulting work for Mr. Vader, a well known businessman who spearheaded the creation of a large spherical space station.
  
  References available upon request."
  
  Professional Weaknesses:
  
  - Once knocked into a Sarlacc Pit by a blind man.
  
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How appropriate by Gunfighter · 2003-09-30 13:35 · Score: 4, Funny
After seeing what looks like a solid plan for spam, I decided to change my business model today. You can read all about it here.

Finally, something to fill in the ????? in my
1. Linux
2. ?????
3. Profit!!
business plan. Now I don't have to hide my email address(es) anymore!
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Re:Vicodin, Viagra, LOW COST CLICK HERE by jcr · 2003-09-30 13:49 · Score: 2, Funny

Now I know I will get flamed for saying this, but when flyer distributors come around, does anyone beat their ass or track them down.

No, but that's an idea worth considering..

-jcr

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Re:Spamming by Chris+Burkhardt · 2003-09-30 14:12 · Score: 5, Funny

> Their character is rarely that of a saint.

Maybe not, but I've seen spam from monks selling laser toner.

Seriously, someone should tell the monks that spamming is not good.

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Let's not be too hasty by el_munkie · 2003-09-30 14:26 · Score: 2, Funny

There's nothing wrong with dealing coke.

Spamming, on the other hand....
Re:glad for one positive hit by ender-iii · 2003-09-30 14:43 · Score: 2, Funny

10,000,000 ?!

What we need here is a new empire with army of cloned bounty hunters... or something!

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Re:Obligitory Comment by randyest · 2003-09-30 15:14 · Score: 3, Funny

It really isn't obligatory at all. Really. I swear. In fact, it's highly discouraged nowadays since it's not in the least bit funny anymore.

Only a slashdot poster such as yourself can pound a joke so hard and for so long that even a great Simpsons' line makes me queasy when I read it. But I have to hand it to you -- you, my friend, are clearly the master of pounding it long and hard. But please don't feel obliged in any way.

You can take a rest any time and no one will miss it. Except for possibly your local Kleenex(TM) and/or hand lotion distributors.

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Poor guy... by betong · 2003-09-30 15:26 · Score: 2, Funny

First Noah's Flood of spam, then isolation and even blame, and now his server gets Slashdotted to death ;).

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Re:Vicodin, Viagra, LOW COST CLICK HERE by Oddly_Drac · 2003-10-01 02:53 · Score: 2, Funny

"Say what? If I filter my mail, how does that in *any way* protect me from some asshole..."

They say that sarcasm is the lowest form of humour, but I like to start low and work my way up to satire, metaphor and allusion when I know my audience is breathing from the nose.

So to make it really obvious, filters wouldn't have helped and the original poster tried to pin the blame on the user for a joe-job.

Thanks for your input.

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Too cynical to live, too stubborn to die.