What You Get When You Buy a Spam CD

Posted by michael on Friday January 2, 2004 @06:27AM from the some-assembly-required dept.

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."

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Re:/dev/random CD for sale! by stonebeat.org · 2004-01-02 06:35 · Score: 1, Redundant

please send the CD to /dev/null ASAP.

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Someone must buy the spammer's products by Chasqui · 2004-01-02 06:48 · Score: 0, Redundant

If no one purchased products which used e-mail spamming techniques we would quickly see the volume of spam reduced. I wonder if my e-mail is on any of these spam CD's and if there is any way to have it removed. As their site said- for a spammer the work "remove" means "confirm".

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