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Spammers Not Complying With CAN-SPAM
Zelphyr writes "The Register is reporting on a study done by MX Logic found that of 1000 messages tested, only three complied with the recently enacted CAN-SPAM act. Little wonder why the spammers weren't shaking in their boots when this spam friendly anti-spam bill was passed."
It should have been called "CAN SPAMMERS", not "CAN SPAM" act.
Somebody actually *paid* to find out what I could've told them for free... go figure.
C|N>K
SCO is not complying with the GPL ;^)
The Onion Version of the CAN-SPAM
Adapted from An Article on War Advisors on Yahoo
Bush CAN-SPAM advisors: unfound Reductions in Spam (RIS)matter little - Perle & Frum Jan 09, 2004
Two of President George W. Bush's CAN-SPAM advisors said that the US inability to find legal spam in cyberspace means little.
"I don't think that you can draw any conclusion from the fact that the stockpiles of complaint spam were not found," Pentagon advisor Richard Perle said at the American Enterprise Institute.
Perle said he did not fear that the United States would lose credibility after Bush used spammers supposed weapons of mass mailings of SEX-SPAM as his principal justification for going to war with spammers.
"If others are going to take the view that, because these Reductions in Spam - aka RIS - weren't found, nothing that the United States says can be trusted -- there's not much we can do about that," he said. "It would be a foolish conclusion to draw."
On Thursday, another Washington think-tank, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said in a report that the US "administration officials systematically misrepresented the threat from Spam and SEX-SPAM."
However, Perle said the war on cyberspace was justified: "I think that what was done was right and prudent."
Perle appeared with Robert Frum, the former Bush speech writer who coined "Axis of Liberals." They were two of the hardline members of the administration who argued the need to Can Spam by CAN-SPAM.
Perle and Frum's book, "An End to Evil," promotes the so-called neo-conservative use of military force to pacify the world including the cyberspace.
They take aim at Saudi Arabia, US politicians, journalists and France -- all of whom they said stand in the way of Bush's "War on Terror."
"What troubles us is a pretty persistent Open Relay Mail Servers policy of trying to weaken and marginalize the United States within cyberspace," Perle said.
"All we ask from Spammers is that, in the construction of Spam as a political and commercial tool, spammers think of themselves as a partner with the United States in the protection of Western civilization. That's not a lot to ask."
"Let me add, I think FSF runs the very great risk of becoming isolated."
Frum, who left the White House in 2003, was as unswerving as Bush himself.
"Sometimes the right answer, when a person has a grievance against you, is to say: 'You're completely mistaken; that grievance comes out of a completely wrong way of looking at the world and you're just going to have to get over it'," Frum said.
We're not going to change."
To see a world in a grain of sand, and then to step back and see the beach where the sand lies
- Pope found to be Catholic. - Scientists conclude sky is "blue". - Evidence found of bear defacating in woods.
I'd love to see someone try to argue this point of view to a judge with a straight face...
<voice ='Darl McBride'>Let me be the first to recommend David Boies; it's amazing the things he can argue with a straight face. For instance, did you know the GPL is unconstitutional?
Oh, and that'll be $699.00 for the advice....</voice>
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
A new study suggests that dictators are shown to be significantly more brutal than democratically elected officials, and big businesses usually fuck the consumer more over than small businesses.
What a fucking surprise!
(please excuse the irony).
Now when we've had spammers that doesn't care about anti-spam laws, I guess that we'll have greedy lawyers and lying politicians any day now...
Why not? If you want to punish someone who makes a living from computers, I think that would be very fitting. Of course, there's always voice recognition... maybe we'd better cut their larynxes out as well... But then they could strap a stick to their forehead and tap the keys with that... Oh, fuck it, let's just chop the bastards' heads off and be done with it.
Just another wannabe fantasy novelist...
Microsoft Windows is, fittingly, the official Desktop OS of Olig
As an American people have the right to spam others because of the freedom of speech act in our bill of rights but there are limits. Who can decide who has a bigger voice, if all men are created equall then why are there some people that have more power than others and have a bigger sayn in what happens. This is message is just saying that people should haved the freedom of speech, I myself do not condone spam but just was putting out the facts Thank You
MonkeysKickAss
I can imagine this setting:
Man sits behind computer monitor, furiously working on the kayboard, pale face illuminated by his CRT monitor.
(knock on door)
Man: Who is it ?
Voice: Pizza delivery.
Man: Hm, I was wondering when the liver-anchovy pizza would arriv..... (door kicked in, in comes a heavily armed cop in black leather).
Man: Whoa... !
Police Officer: This is a SPAM search!! We have a report that large amounts of Viagra scam mail has been sent from this house! We have a warrant to search the premesis! Get down on teh ground, NOW!!!
(2 minutes later, the cop is in front of the computer, browsing the software and local documents. The spammer hangs on chains in the background, mouth duct-taped shut).
Police officer: Looks like we have some serious shit here. You have operated a spam outfit for more than 6 months. Lets see.... aha. Viagra ? Super viagra ? Breast enhancement pills ? And.... wtf, you sick shit. Osama Bin laden Bestiality porn ? Boy, I guess I'm gonna have to call up some pipe-hittin' niggers, and in 10 minutes they're gonna be here, getting medival on your ass with a blowtorch and a pair of pliers....
(Man, now known to be a spammer, squirms and moans loudly in the background. Music from Pulp Fiction rape scene fades in. Shot of house from outside, as music goes full blast).
THE END!
You would just give them a decent spanking. And they would remember that. Furthermore this would be much cheaper than traditional punishment.
:)
Really? As I understand it, a decent spanking costs upwards of $200 per hour. How is that more cost-effective than a fine, and furthermore, that punishment would surely only *increase* the amount of a certain type of porn spam.
Thank god for Slashdot! For some reason, I had thought that the law's name was "U-CAN-SPAM"
here's a summary from the crap I submitted to spamcop this morning.. ".il, .it, .fr, .pi". Hmmmm... I don't even know what backwards country those tlds are from
:-)
.pi, it doesn't appear to exist. Maybe you got an e-mail from a particularly overzealous mathematician.
Israel, Italy, France. Yup, really backward countries, I can see!
As for
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