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Spam Bits

Posted by michael on from the spam-and-eggs dept.

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.

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  1. Yet another "King of Spam" by AndroidCat · · Score: 4, Funny

    So Bernard Balan claims to be the (ex) king of spam and "one of the best programmers around"? Oh wait, spammer rule #1.

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  2. Re:Wow, they requested this? by schon · · Score: 4, Funny

    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..

  3. 300 lines of Java? by Wee · · Score: 4, Funny
    You are welcome to review the code that I used, although there really isn't much to it... some 300 lines of java.

    So that's like, what? 25 lines of Perl?

    I kid because I love.

    -B

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