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What You Get When You Buy a Spam CD
defender writes "Recently over here in The Netherlands, the spam versus anti-spam 'war' has hardened. More professional spamming coming from a handful of hard-core spammers utilizing bulletproof hosting in India, chained open proxies, more and more false whois information, etc. One of the more known anti-spam people has been sent one of the subjects of those spams: a CD with millions of e-mail addressess of 'individuals' and hundreds of thousands of 'businesses'... Rejo Zenger has done an analysis of such a CD, which is fuelling new debate as to why the recent EU anti-spam directive was weakened because of businesses complaining or indicating that spam wasn't a big issue for them."
That's right, E-mail is the best way to advertise your product. IF you send me $300 USD I'll give you a CD packed with email address that have been generated using the latest technology. The /dev/random method is world reknown for unique addresses with no repeats. I gaurantee that they are ALL ORIGINAL email addresses!
/dev/null E-mail address CD at no additional charge!
And if you act now, I'll send you the
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Bulletproof hosting in India? Gee, now I know what we can do with the variety of Kevlar-penetrating bullets in the US. Maybe your servers can survive a Slashdotting, but can they survive a barrage of 7.62mm armor-piercing bullets? I think not.
And if there are a few bullets left over, I'm sure someone can come up with some creative spammer-related uses for them...
can they also please test one of those penis enlargement pills? I'd like to know if they work...
It's only a matter of time when someone (not tuxette though) will do an al Qaida on some notorious spammer or other. There are only so many catalogs and pizzas you can send a spammer...
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
I swear officers, I was just going to use it for making cookies. What? You mean thats illegal too? Dang it, now how am I going to be able to sit through the Matrix trillogy!
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
...AOL CDs, Compuserve CDs, Prodigy CDs, Earthlink CDs. Now I just get AOL CDs.
What I really miss are the days of spam floppies, now I never seem to have a floppy when I need one.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
One of the email addresses on the CD: ikautostelen@van.jouw
which translates from dutch to english to something like: me-steal-car@from.you
Does the spammer care? There is a principle here. What kind of a world do we live in when a spammer cannot trust another spammer? Is there no honor even amongst thieves? A spammer who is willing to cheat another spammer cannot move any further down on the food chain. This is the last straw. Perhaps its time to start boycotting spammers! As hard as it is to delete those penis enlargement emails it is time to take a stand.
Zounds. Can we expand Godwin's law to Al Queda?
I think the assumption that they are maliciously giving out bad e-mail addresses overstates their intelligence. It is more likely that they just don't know what they are doing. But...thanks to this wonderful (and free) tutorial, they can now vastly improve their own spam e-mail lists! The tutorial was even kind enough to provide the appropriate regex patterns at the bottom. How Thoughful.
Jens Wessling
We really need a mandatory X-ICBM-Reply header.
Syphilis, hopefully. :)
/obvious
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
Spammers making outrageous claims? Who woulda thought!?!?!?
I think I am gonna copyright my email address . . . then I can bill any company that is being advertised for whatever amount I please when they use my address in an email header. Most won't pay, but those companies that paid sco probably will send me a few bucks :P
Those odds approach 1 at the speed of light if you send me your address and you are within 100 miles of where I live.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Actually no, we probably couldn't do it without saying "fuck it".
We'd lose that caution to the wind, devil may care edge that most of us crave if we did that.
I know I'm not participating unless "fuck it" is the official battle cry of this movement.
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Hey, don't forget that spammers are people too. Are they deserving of this atmosphere of hate towards them for simply doing their jobs, which is to sell things and to spam other people. Everybody needs a job, and some of them are doing their jobs very well, even circumventing complex filters through ingenuity. This christmas season, be nice to a spammer.
Promote your business to millions of fictitious addresses!!! Waste your bandwidth!! Guaranteed 0.000% clickthrough rate!
Seriously... what would happen if everyone here went rogue, said "fuck it", and just actively blew away spammers (online, mind you, we don't need any gun-toting geeks for the love of god)?
What about Eric Raymond?
On second thought, guns are too subtle.
How about we attack spammers with Trebuchets?
Or fling spammers into walls with a Trebuchet?
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I dunno, I reckon a couple of tons dropped from about 10 feet could do some serious damage.
I know I'm not participating unless "fuck it" is the official battle cry of this movement.
I don't think that "fuck it", in this context, means that you will be getting laid.
Sorry.