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Australian Spam Bill Not So Good After All?

Posted by timothy on from the hawaiians-get-more-spam-anyhow dept.

crazney writes "Electronic Frontiers Australia has criticized the anti-spam bill proposed by the Australian government. You can read their full analysis here"

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  1. Austrailian spam? Naw! by zerocool^ · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Spam sent from austrailia? Never.

    Oh, wait. I just sent some emails to the people who own:
    mail006.syd.optusnet.com.au
    mta05.mail.mel. aone.net.au
    mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au

    And told them to stop the spamming.
    Return-Path: spachakra@ozemail.com.au
    Received: from mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta04.mail.au.uu.net
    [203.2.192.84]) by mail.netmar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA02654
    for <your_mom@netmar.com>; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 00:04:47 -0400 (EDT)
    Received: from fsveeyjv ([63.60.218.131]) by mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au
    with SMTP
    id <20031005040357.GWUT21664.mta04.mail.mel.aone.net. au@fsveeyjv>;
    Sun, 5 Oct 2003 14:03:57 +1000
    FROM: "Microsoft Customer Support" <njsmmr_lcmmo@technet.com>
    TO: "Customer" <customer-ciltovfs@technet.com>
    SUBJECT: New Net Update
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Message-Id: <20031005040357.GWUT21664.mta04.mail.mel.aone.net. au@fsveeyjv>
    Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 14:04:37 +1000
    Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="ucvnkfiuyukzljwof"
    Content-Length: 157002
    Yeah, I'm getting these "Microsoft Net Update" mail messages at a rate of about 6 an hour. "Please install this latest update, rejwk.bat". Please wash my balls.

    I'm so freaking frustrated, though. I don't know how to filter them, cause they're comming from lots of different (some non-open relay) mail servers, and the messages are innocent enough as to not be words I'd want to filter out of my incomming mail. Plus, all the file attachments and email addresses and attachments are all randomly generated characters.

    FUCKING SPAM make the internet unusable! GOD DAMNIT. They took something that was beautiful in it's simplicity, and FUCKING RUINED IT.

    GOD, I must be tired to rant, but it pisses me off. Viruses! Spam! Worms! Denial of service! Get sued by the FBI, CIA, RIAA, SCO, FreeMasons! Fuck, it's a wonder anyone's still online.

    ~Will
    --
    sig?