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Brightmail Denies "White List" Deal With Spammer
ThePretender writes "From the InfoWorld article: 'A spammer's claim to his clients that he had an agreement with anti-spam technology vendor Brightmail to not block his traffic was contradicted by Brightmail officials today.' From the sounds of it, Scott Richter (apparently a notorious spammer) might just be looking for some media attention, he even goes as far saying he has similar agreements with some major ISPs. Ouch! May the drama unfold..."
It's fun to watch them try to clean themselves after doing that.
boo
HOW'S MY POSTING? CALL 1-800-POSTING
Emacs is a sorry bloated piece of shit. Anyone with half a fucking clue will use vi.
Spammers are always honest, arn't they?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
From optinrealbig.com front page:
OptinRealBig.com, LLC ("Optin") has been informed that the New York
Attorney General and Microsoft have announced a press conference for
December 18, 2003. Optin has not been informed by either Microsoft nor
the New York Attorney General as to what the purpose of the press
conference is. Through other sources Optin has been informed that the
purpose of the press conference is to announce that a civil complaint
has been filed alleging violations of New York law by numerous
defendants, including Optin and Scott Richter, its President. Optin and
Scott Richter vigorously deny any violations of New York law and ask
that their clients and friends make no decision regarding any liability
on their part until they have the opportunity to respond to any
allegations made against them. Neither Optin nor Scott Richter will
have any further comment regarding this matter until they have had the
opportunity to read and review the Complaint. Any inquiries regarding
this matter should be addressed to Optin's legal counsel, Linda Goodman
(619-233-3535). Ms. Goodman is currently out of the office and will not
be available for comment until December 19, 2003.
The name of the spammer in question is Scott Ritcher by the way...not Richert. I've been lucky enough to meet this guy and even stay at his half million dollar house in Westminster Colorado for a week. He's doing pretty well for himself if you count the house, the 3 car garage with a black Lexus SC430 and a matching LX470. But overall i'd have to say him and his company are a bunch of idiots. His so-called "partner" Dustin Parker (it says this in the spamhaus link) is a total idiot . When i worked for him, Dustin was a 16-year old middle school drop out. We smoked a couple blunts together. Complete idiot. Just goes to show it doesn't take intelligence to become successful. Of course Scott is only dragging Dustin along because Scott himself is clueless from a technical standpoint. I dunno what the point of this post was except that Dustin is an idiot and Scott isn't far behind him but Scott's making millions off of other idiots so i guess that says something.
Scott
I've got a deal with Microsoft and the big AV companies to not do anything about the email virus I'm about to let loose.
Enjoy suckers!!!
And we're worrying about, um, supposed back-door business deals?
Hate to break it to ya, but this kind of thing happens a lot anyway. Don't waste your energy worrying about crap like this -- it'll always happen.
We should be worrying about Saddam, bin Laden, Syria's terrorist fund laundering, etc.
Spam? Who cares?! Let's roll first and get rid of terrorists.
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
If he has some rich Nigerian banker diplomat on his side, he could have had that man vouch for him.
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This is true. I used to be a bit more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.
Big brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.
They also revoke moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if your karma is capped.
Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate. You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak" of an editor.
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So AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the caboose. So now all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE. And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about anonymity.
Also, sometimes when certain information becomes an active thread, they bitchslap the thread much later so that people think its "safe" to participate and the whole thing gets slapped.
There is a presumption anonymous means something. They lie like rugs to the posting public by using the word anonymous. It is not. They brazenly lie though and the un-assuming poster is having everything he says correlated with him and stored in a computer just waiting to be subpoenaed by the people that Slashdot claims to hate but works for. They work for the fascist forces and components of the US government. I like the US and other Western governments but they have good and bad components - there are things you need to do to protect yourself from the bad components. Basically "covering your ass" so to speak. At Slashdot, in lying about AC, un-protects its posting public (seeding a de-anonymizing privacy stripping pandemic in their own "little" way). This makes Slashdot a very dangerous target for you the posters to have your "anonymous" information subpoenaed and you to be chased down and persecuted for speaking your mind. I think that it is a joke Slashdot editors post about SCO, MSFT, RIAA, MPAA, TIA, FBI, etc. They do the same fascist big-brotherly things that those companies do
What will we do now!!!1
The problem is that anyone can create bogus emails, thereby masking their own identity. Well surely there is a technical solution to this, such as abandoning the current mail protocols to prevent people from submitting emails with fake identifying info, or from submitting emails from bogus IPs. But where is there any progress along these lines?
Well, glad you asked. The result of the Anti-Spam law will be more American jobs moving over seas or to disreputable neighbors.
Think about it. Once those jobs move over seas America will have even less power to constrain the pread of spam.
There ya go Slashbots.
If it's true that Brightmail made no special deal with him, it looks like he could be prosecuted for consumer fraud as well as spamming. Indeed, his clients could presumably sue him too. If Brightmail did make a special deal with him, assuming that they advertise that they block spam, then they comitted consumer fraud. Somebody's in trouble here one way or the other.
What kind of spider hole have you been hiding in the past week?
you're an idiot if you really think thats Saddam that they captured..
just look at the excellent timing.. just in time for Bush to secure the election..
Saddam is smarter than that to be so easily caught.. probably in a palace in Syria laughing his ass off right now
Associate Professor of Computer Science
More like Associate Professor of Sucking Cock.
We should have sent the spammers to Iraq in the first wave.
Oh no! the sky is falling! the sky is falling!
Please fuck off and die.
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Your UID is being tracked, it's not Anonymous. Lots of people post lots of things to Slashdot as AC only because they believe it is really anonymous - it isn't. They hunt "trolls" (non-karma whores and non-group thinking bots) down.
This is true. I used to be a bit more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.
Big brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.
They also revoke moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if your karma is capped.
Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate. You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak" of an editor.
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So AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the caboose. So now all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE. And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about anonymity.
Also, sometimes when certain information becomes an active thread, they bitchslap the thread much later so that people think its "safe" to participate and the whole thing gets slapped.
There is a presumption anonymous means something. They lie like rugs to the posting public by using the word anonymous. It is not. They brazenly lie though and the un-assuming poster is having everything he says correlated with him and stored in a computer just waiting to be subpoenaed by the people that Slashdot claims to hate but works for. They work for the fascist forces and components of the US government. I like the US and other Western governments but they have good and bad components - there are things you need to do to protect yourself from the bad components. Basically "covering your ass" so to speak. At Slashdot, in lying about AC, un-protects its posting public (seeding a de-anonymizing privacy stripping pandemic in their own "little" way). This makes Slashdot a very dangerous target for you the posters to have your "anonymous" information subpoenaed and you to be chased down and persecuted for speaking your mind. I think that it is a joke Slashdot editors post about SCO, MSFT, RIAA, MPAA, TIA, FBI, etc. They do the same fascist big-brotherly things that those companies
you're an idiot if you really think thats Saddam that they captured..
just look at the excellent timing.. just in time for Bush to secure the election..
Saddam is smarter than that to be so easily caught.. probably in a palace in Syria laughing his ass off right now
Fuck Texas! Fuck The DMCA! Fuck Ken Lay!
Wake up, they have you. Oh no, you're too fat to move! How did that happen?
Get off the glass tit.
Fuck Texas! Texas Sucks!
I still want to know who won the war on drugs.
Fuck Texas! Fuck The Patriot Act! Fuck Andrew Fastow!
Legalize IT!
Too fat to move.
Fuck Texas! Fuck Prohibition! Fuck Rupert Murdoch!
(o)(o)
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Corporate officials are not all the much more trustworthy, unless I see hard evidence either way this becomes a mute point. All goes down too who you trust more, companies out to get your money or individuals out to get your money. Best way to stop them getting it is to not have any money, which is working out just fine for me.
OMIGOD! Does this mean they know about my shitty grades in high school? File this topic away in 'Who gives a flying fuck?'
(yes, this is offtopic- feel free to mark down.)
Seems like his address can be found here
Scott Richter
1333 w 120th Ave suite 101
Westminster CO 80234
Srich10195@AOL.COM
303-5509828
OR
Richter, Scott srich10195@al.com
SaveRealBig
p.o.box 21316
denver, co 80221
usa
303-428-3600
Even if he did have an agreement with a private corporation (which it appears he did not), it wouldn't matter if he broke the law, correct?
Francois Lavaste, Brightmail VP of Marketing, said in a statement provided the GripeLog, "I have personally verified, with the assistance of male members of my department, the ineffectiveness of products advertised by Mr. Richter." Other Brightmail executives were spending the holidays in Nigeria and were unavailable for comment.
Paranoia feeding Slashdot gets bit by the paranoia it generated!
I have written several times of a major spamming operation that is using major ISPs. This is the guy who has been paying MSN > 1Million / month (apparently, also, Yahoo and AOL, but I do not know what the amount or deal is there). MSN then was getting greedy and raised it to > 5Million. From what I understand several of the other spammers kept the deal, but this guy approached another major DSL company and offered 2Million / month. The interesting thing is that he wants IPs and bandwidth. The major companies do not try to shut down insecure servers becuase they locate them and then simply use those IPs. Later they can blame the client.
Most of the spam that everybody thinks is coming from overseas is not. It is here, but the large ISPs are willing to hide it for a large price.
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When you are logged in,
Please *log out* AND use another browser before making your AC comments.
Your UID is being tracked, it's not Anonymous. Lots of people post lots of things to Slashdot as AC only because they believe it is really anonymous - it isn't. They hunt "trolls" (non-karma whores and non-group thinking bots) down.
This is true. I used to be a bit more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.
Big brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.
They also revoke moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if your karma is capped.
Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate. You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak" of an editor.
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Changes since 1.7.2.4: +18 -7 lines
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log more AC info
So AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the caboose. So now all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE. And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about anonymity.
Also, sometimes when certain information becomes an active thread, they bitchslap the thread much later so that people think its "safe" to participate and the whole thing gets slapped.
There is a presumption anonymous means something. They lie like rugs to the posting public by using the word anonymous. It is not. They brazenly lie though and the un-assuming poster is having everything he says correlated with him and stored in a computer just waiting to be subpoenaed by the people that Slashdot claims to hate but works for. They work for the fascist forces and components of the US government. I like the US and other Western governments but they have good and bad components - there are things you need to do to protect yourself from the bad components. Basically "covering your ass" so to speak. At Slashdot, in lying about AC, un-protects its posting public (seeding a de-anonymizing privacy stripping pandemic in their own "little" way). This makes Slashdot a very dangerous target for you the posters to have your "anonymous" information subpoenaed and you to be chased down and persecuted for speaking your mind. I think that it is a joke Slashdot editors post about SCO, MSFT, RIAA, MPAA, TIA, FBI, etc. They do the same fascist big-brotherly things that those companies do the public at large as they do to the Slashdot posting public.
Protect yourself. Try and use proxies or a super good second browser with proxies that you never log into such as Opera (which makes it very easy to delete all private data). Thank you.
But you need to realize is that the reason email works, on the global scale it does, is precisely because of that lack of authentication, and it's decentralized, open nature.
I'm not saying "it's impossible"... it's certainly not.. but the more layers of authentication, and the beurocracies needed to manage them, the less workably any system becomes.
His name is Richter, not Richert, which is clearly indicated in the links provided.
Michael, by definition you cannot call yourself an editor unless you actually edit the stories.
Am I the only one that sees the irony of this whole submission to slashdot because it was a post about a spammer pretending to have white list access and submitted by a pretender?
With variation from time to time, the rules that ALWAYS applies to spammers are[From news.admin.net-abuse.email]:
Rule #1: Spammers lie.
[(Proposed) Sharp's Corollary: Spammers attempt to re-define "spamming" as that which they do not do.]
Rule #2: If a spammer seems to be telling the truth, see Rule #1.
Chrissman's Corollary: A spammer, when caught, blames his victims.
Rule #3: Spammers are stupid.
Krueger's Corollary: Spammer lies are really stupid. Pickett's Commentary: Spammer lies are boring. Russell's Corollary: Never underestimate the stupidity of spammers.
I say see rule #1 when listening to a spammer.
AngryPeopleRule
"Science is about ego as much as it is about discovery and truth " - I said it, so sue me.
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When you are logged in,
Please *log out* AND use another browser before making your AC comments.
Your UID is being tracked, it's not Anonymous. Lots of people post lots of things to Slashdot as AC only because they believe it is really anonymous - it isn't. They hunt "trolls" (non-karma whores and non-group thinking bots) down.
This is true. I used to be a bit more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.
Big brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.
They also revoke moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if your karma is capped.
Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate. You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak" of an editor.
FACT: This is in Slashcode CVS
Revision 1.7.2.5 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Thu Feb 8 13:12:32 2001 UTC (2 years, 9 months ago) by pudge
Branch: bender
CVS Tags: v1_1_3_0
Changes since 1.7.2.4: +18 -7 lines
Diff to previous 1.7.2.4 to branchpoint 1.7
log more AC info
So AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the caboose. So now all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE. And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about anonymity.
Also, sometimes when certain information becomes an active thread, they bitchslap the thread much later so that people think its "safe" to participate and the whole thing gets slapped.
There is a presumption anonymous means something. They lie like rugs to the posting public by using the word anonymous. It is not. They brazenly lie though and the un-assuming poster is having everything he says correlated with him and stored in a computer just waiting to be subpoenaed by the people that Slashdot claims to hate but works for. They work for the fascist forces and components of the US government. I like the US and other Western governments but they have good and bad components - there are things you need to do to protect yourself from the bad components. Basically "covering your ass" so to speak. At Slashdot, in lying about AC, un-protects its posting public (seeding a de-anonymizing privacy stripping pandemic in their own "little" way). This makes Slashdot a very dangerous target for you the posters to have your "anonymous" information subpoenaed and you to be chased down and persecuted for speaking your mind. I think that it is a joke Slashdot editors post about SCO, MSFT, RIAA, MPAA, TIA, FBI, etc. They do the same fascist big-brotherly things that those companies do the
Face it you Americans are just bullies going around beating up arabs and stealing their lunch (oil) money!
You are fucking pathetic!
Come on pick on someone your own size. Fuck with China and North Korea. Bring it on fat fags. Go pray to the "holy ghost" or one of your other idols like that loser nailed to the wall, lol, nice god. Why do westerners still practice pathetic feudal superstition.
Anyways, stop picking on the backwards Arabs, bring it on, fuck with China and North Korea and get a fucking nuclear beat down you imperialist pigs.
all users of slashdot who have an interest in it being a fair medium to exchange information owe it to the community to post this comment at least twice a day.
*'A spammer's claim to his clients...*
I think that's the key phrase here. Apparently Scott is losing customers, and in order to retain them, or gain new ones, he has to tell clients he is "whitelisted". What reputable business would want to pay an email broadcast company, when that company is blocklisted. He couldn't possibly think to use this as a defence, saying that if Brightmail whitelists him, he must not be a spammer. But then again, from what I've seen regarding him, I wouldn't be surprised.
As far as I'm concerned, any business that uses Optin is just as sleazy as Scott.
Pete Carr Owner Chatmag.com
Even if spammers move their servers overseas, the people running the business here can be sued. Even if the spammer is completely overseas, they can still be sued. If a US company hires a spammer to spam, the US company can be sued.
Fight Spammers!
The biggest problem with the "I didn't opt in!" complaints is that spammers have gotten better and better at submerging the opt-in indication to a yes-defaulted checkbox within all sorts of websites and software. Once you have slipped up and comprimised your e-mail address this way, you've basically given that publisher permission to spam you and share your address with any other spammers they want to "partner" with.
Therefore, anti-spam laws will always have a hole that a truck can be driven through. Since proving that you've never accidently tripped over a "universal opt-in" is nearly impossible to do, successful prosecutions will be tough.
The only way we're ever going to fully kill spam is to abandon SMTP and get a better way to verify that e-mail really came from the claimed sender and leaves a valid return address...
Dude,
If you have a conspiracy theory regarding Slashdot, either don't troll as AC, or use a second computer (without cookies, another ISP, etc) to post AC. That should remove any association real or imagined of an AC post with your real ID. Good luck.
Part of the reason to toss the name 'brightmail' around is because their product is awesome at stopping spam. The spammer is probably just trying to undermine brightmail's credibility.
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You generally can't believe a thing the guy says. I know for a fact he doesn't have agreements with at least one of the carrier/ISP's he says he does, and that carrier has had problems with him off and on for years through a couple of their larger hosting customers.
Of course, just for saying this, he'll threaten to get his dad (who's a lawyer!) to come after me, except of course that he's a tax lawyer.
Out of spammers, this guy is the lowest of the low.
Use the "which is more probable?" principle: which is more probable? A anti-spam technology ruin itself by promising blocking spam and letting thousands of junk mail pass by becouse ti made a deal that will ruin it's bussiness or The goo'dam spammer is lying?
- no sig.
Imagined?
The fucking code right there proves it.
idiot
I would wager if you asked most people to take an anonymous survey and while they were filling it out, you opened their wallet and wrote down their name, these people might ask you why it's called an anonymous survey?
Don't give me your fucking attitude either. Slashdot does associate AC posts with your user id if you are logged in when you post. There are numerous ways to verify this but you're obviously too lazy to do so. If you aren't even willing to do the research on this topic, don't post your nonsense here you asshole.
The election is nearly a year away. November 2004. Do your research before you try again, Mr. Troll.
Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
The biggest problem with the "I didn`t opt in!" complaints is that spammers have gotten better and better at submerging the opt-in indication to a yes-defaulted checkbox within all sorts of websites and software. Once you have slipped up and comprimised your e-mail address this way, you`ve basically given that publisher permission to spam you and share your address with any other spammers they want to "partner" with.
Therefore, anti-spam laws will always have a hole that a truck can be driven through. Since proving that you've never accidently tripped over a "universal opt-in" is nearly impossible to do, successful prosecutions will be tough.
The only way we're ever going to fully kill spam is to abandon SMTP and get a better way to verify that e-mail really came from the claimed sender and leaves a valid return address...
HOW'S MY POSTING? CALL 1-800-POSTING
So my response is.. if you are posting something AC that you are really worried about someone finding your true identity, why are you posting it to fucking Slashdot anyway?
Talk about a non-problem.. do you bitch just to see your own words?
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
You're just feeding his notoriety by talking about him, obviously it's a stunt on his part.
Brightmail has so few false positives and allows so little spam through that any noticable continuous stream of spam caused by such an alleged "arrangement" between Ritcher and Brightmail would be bound to get noticed by savvy end users/administrators, if not Brightmail post-installation tech support.
Same with alleged "whitelists" at ISPs - enough people have eyes on MTA configs that there would be questions.
This is bullshit and I'm sorry Brightmail had to stoop to a public answer.
I was told by a friend of mine (mortgage broker) that his company stopped using ileads.com because they were getting too many "bad quality" leads.
It seems that some people are starting to fill out these forms and having the brokers contact them and then after taking all the contact information from the broker, they inform them that if they don't a) divulge the information of where they got the lead and b) agree to stop using companies that use SPAM to generate leads that they will hand their contact details to the foaming at the mouth public.
Is this legal ? Souds like sweet justice to me.
Hey asshole.. "Let's roll" were the last known words of one brave mother fucker as he was about to take action you could only imagine in your masturbatory dreams. For you to even *think* that phrase dishonors his memory and the memories of all those who died on 9-11-2001.
Bush should be impeached if for no other reason than for including that phrase in his pathetic SOTU speech, and all pathetic marketers including it in their advertisements (I've seen it on billboards attempting to sell low-end cars, for God's sake).
That phrase should be retired from common usage much the way an athlete's number is retired by his/her team.
Anything else dilutes and sullies the memory of that event.
Oh, so that's where the millions of dollars are from that they need help transferring to the US. Sounds like if we help them, we could make a few bucks! ;-)
The truth shall set you free!
Me too, I concluded an agreement with this guy, about my Iron Bar(TM). Whenever I meet him, he lets me beat the hell out of him with my Iron Bar(TM).
Rumours are that I have agreements with other spammers too, they just love my Iron Bar(TM).
Iron Bar(TM), the ultimate solution to construtive talks with spammers.
Not only do some anti-spam software companies make deals with spammers (according to the article), but some also are among the worst spammers.
I talked to a few different anti-spam software companies over the last few months. With each of them, I told them that once we made the decision on which (if any) software to go with, I wanted absolutely no further phone calls or emails trying to sell me their product. We made our decision just over 3 weeks ago and informed the software venders.
Two weeks ago, I received a spam from one of the venders we didn't purchase from. (Yes, the software we decided on caught it, but still, it's the priniciple of the thing.) I followed their procedures to opt-out and also sent an email to the salesperson whose name and email address appeared in the email. I informed her that I told them that I wanted no emails from them trying to sell me their software. I explained how disappointed I was in them and asked to receive no further emails.
A few days later, I received another spam from them. This one was "signed" by a VP of the company. Again, I opted out and sent an email to the VP explaining the entire situation. I explained that I was beyond disappointed and was now getting angry. I demanded that I not receive another sales email from them and explained that if I did, I would be passing the word about their tactics to friends that might be in the market for such software.
Guess what? I got another one. This time, I called the salesperson I was dealing with and explained that I was going to tell everyone I know about how Intellireach is an anti-spam software company that spammed me, did not honor my request to not get spammed in the first place and also did not honor several opt-out requests when the requests followed the instructions in the spam.
But why is the rum gone?
welcome to 1998 guys... ISPS accept money in exchange for spam rights. I've seen it done, I've handed the check over and recieved the email addresses to both AOL and MSN. One of the biggest 'anti-spam advocates' in the US has a 40% stake in the second largest direct email business in the world.
the real spammers use people like slashdot readers to smash and block the smaller spammers.
French kiss my crab infested cock.
we need to warn the real white people of the dangers of rotten-snaggle-toothed wiggers.
and the replies are truth
Then if any spam filtering companies are whitelisting spammers, then go after the companies for fraud.
Fight Spammers!
For quite some time their filtering has been effective. Brightmail won't say how they do it, but human screening, and subsequent filtering of emails containing links to spamvertised domains seemed to be a part of it.
Lately I have just been spammed silly. Looking at the spams (what choice do I have) the same spamvertised domains are represented over and over. This had not happened in the past.
This spam continues after desperately hitting the "Report Spam" button (available on their webmail interface only).
This supports the theory that either ATT or their contract spam filtering with Brightmail are passing or inserting certain mails.
With this development, I am not inclined to extend this service contract with ATT. I will be certain to pass on this information when the contract is terminated.
I wish credit card companies had fake numbers to give to these spammers and paypal fraud artists that would automatically trigger alarms when they ran through for verification. This would be a great way for people to track down who is actually profiting from the spam.
Due to my excessive paranoia, I'd hesitate to ever do a spam purchase online with a credit card... but, that bit seems like a genius way to take a spammer down.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of angry spam recipients suing spammers for real monetary damages.
I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
[Full disclosure: Though I am aware of the great detriment to productive society that spam does, I just don't get any of it. I'd be pissed if I did.]
idiot
obviously Bush wants to disarm the dem candidates by "capturing" Saddam, thus weakening their positions.. Saddam will remain a figure head for the Bush campaign for several months and the eventual trial, which will most likely be scheduled to coincide with the weeks before and during the election, will serve to bolster his ratings even more
Instead, an Iron Pipe filled with cement...
Wrong again. It's supposed to be "Cement filled with spammer(TM)".
Huh? Thats not his point. He already told how to avoid being detected.
His point, if you had any literacy, was that Slashdot's "anonynimity" was not actually anonymous as it is being protrayed
I work for a Brightmail competitor, and I find Richter's claim of cutting a whitelist deal with Brightmail to be completely implausible. They wouldn't do anything like that for the same reasons we wouldn't do anything like that:
1) If they were ever caught (and they probably would be, because their software integrates with your MTA, which means someone could reverse-engineer it or snoop traffic between the MTA and Brightmail), their competitors' sales departments would have a field day stealing their customers. The anti-spam business is growing rapidly, but it's very competitive. If any of the companies in this field cut a whitelist deal with a spammer and got caught, the others would eat their lunch;
2) Even if they didn't get caught, lowering their spam prevention effectiveness would cause complaints from their customers and make it harder to beat the competition in comparisons and they'd lose out in the marketplace. Competition is huge, and Brightmail is somewhat limited in that their system only works with some MTAs, whereas some other systems (such as ours) are completely MTA-agnostic, which means we can sell to anyone. They wouldn't dare take such a chance, nor would they trust the spammer to keep his mouth shut if he got in a tight spot. Spammers, after all, are fundamentally unethical people, and an anti-spam company would never trust one.
I don't believe his claim at all.
many credit card vendors let you generate "fake account" numbers per online transaction. MC/visa both do it, amex might too (haven't looked recently). it's a feature that the banks offer, in the case of MC/visa, so your bank may not offer it. But it's been done.
that acct# gets used for one transaction only.. can't be reused, etc.
See comments.pl
sub moderateCid
...
# Can't modearate any anonymous comments from same IP.
return if $host_name eq $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} && $cuid == -1;
Yeah. And my point is - so what?
Go find a REAL issue...
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Come on now. At least have the balls not to post AC. Everyone knows that Osama will fall from the ceiling on a bungee cord when they drop the confetti at the Republican Convention ;-)
Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
The original poster seems to have missed the story. OptInRealBig spammer Scott Richter isn't "looking for attention" -- he's being prosecuted for fraud. His (implausible) claims about a deal with Brightmail have been disclosed in emails gathered as evidence by the New York Attorney General's office (that's a 2.5 MB PDF, Richter's Brightmail allegations are on p.90-91).
Comment ID 7777777 seven sevens.
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
MOD comment ID#7777777 up.
Give the guy something. I mean, karma doesn't cost money, so instead of something truly cool like a gift cert for ThinkGeek, just mod the guy up.
Or email him a redirect link to goatse. pfft.
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If that is an issue, then the discovery of the people whitelisting them is appropriate, then people can go after the improper whitelisters.
Fight Spammers!
and post the entire spam with headers to NANAS. Thats a usenet group where people report their spam to, it helps establish a pattern of who is spamming, and keeps companies from later saying they never spammed. Also some of the blacklists check NANAS and will make updates based on who is spamming.
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
STFU, you pink normal. You make the baby Bob vomit.
Another approach is to get a small bank account with a debit card, and never put more money in it than you're willing to risk losing to fraudulent spammers.
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Maybe he's just claiming that Brightmail doesn't block 127.0.0.1 ?
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Also, in the news, a bum in downtown Memphis claimed to be Elvis. While Graceland officials were quick to deny this, many were skeptical.
Spammers like to pretend they are lagit (they know they aren't) to this ends spammers tend to clame alignences.
One spammer clammed Bill Gates was a backer not to long after an artical was published writen by Mr Gates himself condemming spam.
Annother spammer clammed to be part of a large consummer electronics company and got a yahoo listing accordingly.
AoL is often targeted for such clames after AoL sued spammers.
Spammers like to paint companys who are anti-spam as being pro-spam.
(When the worst thing a person can do to you is clame your one of them you know that person is dishonnest)
I don't actually exist.
so... i believe the spammer.
It's a one-time use recyclable MC CC number. You can always send money to yourself, then spend it with that card. Your transactions are logged along with all other transactions at paypal online.
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
My company is far too small to contract directly with Brightmail so we setup an account with a Brightmail service reseller recommended by Brightmail. The very day we switched our MX record over to them the amount of spam we received actually skyrocketed. I even tested this theory by sending a piece of mail to a brand new mailbox with a GUID as the address through a telnet session directly to the service mailserver. Within an hour that mailbox started to receive spam!
They deny the possibility and called me a liar. We no longer use that service.
There is always the possibility that one of their employees is not so honest and the company has no knowledge of this activity but something is amiss.
"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion." - Arthur C. Clarke
Most of the major ISPs do this. It cuts down on the amount of filtering they need to do, and avoids false positive problems. However that doesn't mean it lasts. You can call AOL, give them some info and a contact address that they can verify, and they'll let your bulk mail through... but if they start getting complaints they'll block your IPs. So it's possible that when he started he actually did make such agreements, but I seriously doubt they lasted long.
might just be looking for some media attention,
and getting it... If his name was misspelled, good! -- spammers should be ignored, really, though. Otherwise, we'll just create more of them.
who's moderating the meta-moderators?
Blow it out your ass, a/c- I was right with Bob when you were still spewing green liquid out of your better hole into some stinky pampers. Not to mention taking a white bread and Thunderbird 'body and blood of Bob' communion given by Rev. Stang himself. Now get outta here.