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Let's mush a few things together into a nice pink rectangular solid: ipandithurts writes "The FTC Chair Timothy Muris doubts the ability of the "CAN SPAM" law to stop SPAM." ElementCDN writes "The Ottawa Citizen has a story on Bernard Balan the King of Spam. Bernard has closed up shop and moved to cottage country near Huntsville, Ontario." CactusMan writes "CTV (among others) is reporting that a Ontario trio has been named in a suit filed by Yahoo under the new CAN-SPAM legislation. Yahoo is claiming that the father and two sons were 'responsible for sending millions of unsolicited messages to users of the company's e-mail service.'" ilsa writes "According to this AP article, as much as 19% of e-mail sent by commercial entities never reaches its destination. 'Promotions and greeting cards were the types of messages most likely to disappear, the study found.' Although this study may have been intended to be alarming, forgive me for thinking this may not be a bad thing." Reader chrisbtoo responds to an earlier spam story: "In today's story about Spam solutions, monstroyer challenged people to crack the Spam Interceptor Captcha. Turns out it was pretty easy." Finally, we can't fail to mention an attempt at making the world's largest spam musubi.
No entry found for rectagonal.
Did you mean octagonal?
Prevent email address forgery. Publish SPF records for y
2971 lines in my Junk Senders file and growing.
But that, and about 20 rules filtering out Viagra and various misspellings, cans about 80% of the spam I get. It's almost enough for me.
Now if I could figure out how to get Outlook to hide the mail envelope in the taskbar for messages automatically deleted, I'd be laughing.
SCO, Microsoft, P2P, what's your hot button?
So Bernard Balan claims to be the (ex) king of spam and "one of the best programmers around"? Oh wait, spammer rule #1.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
The yesterday, I recieved what had to be the greatest piece of spam mail I've ever seen.
It had to have been 20 pages long from someone calling himself "Lawrence Jesus Christ", and went on about how they were coming back, and specifically mentioned that the document wasn't spam until the Can-Spam act, how keeping this email from people would allow the sender to sue the company for $7000, a bounce-back would invite a lawsuit for denial of service attack, on and on.
Funniest damned thing I've seen in some time. And I've been wondering if that's the deal with the other spam I've been seeing like how "I had a 36 hour erection with v-i.g.r.@ - click here" or "Bob crossed the room to find the school girls getting rich quick".
No, I'm not making that up. Well, a little - but it seems like spammers are now trying to use humor to get their messages through.
As for Lawrence Jesus Christ or whatever, I deleted it anyway. I'm still waiting for my lawsuit.
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
SOMEBODY is buying penis enlargers and breast kits, otherwise nobody would bother sending out such spam in the first place.
OB Simpsons quote:
"That's specious reasoning, dad. That's like saying that this rock keeps tigers away."
"Really? How does it work?"
"It doesn't! It's just a rock! But you don't see any tigers around do you?"
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Even if nobody buys it, spam will still exist, because spammers think exactly like you do..
"No entry found for rectagonal.
Did you mean octagonal?"
recta, from the latin "rectum" and gonal, from the english verb "to go".
there you have it.
Is this a joke? You can make that much money being a spammer?
No offense people, I but I'm seriously looking at switching careers! I make half that in a year!
I could work less than a single single year and retire. Amazing!
Linux O Muerte!
So that's like, what? 25 lines of Perl?
I kid because I love.
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.