AOL Blocking Spammers' Web Sites

Nuclear Elephant writes "According to this article, AOL has decided to take a fresh approach to fighting spam and is now blocking the spammer's web address. The philosophy is, if the customers can't visit spammers sites, spammers will not be able to make any money. On a side note, I suggested this concept about six months ago but nobody thought ISPs would adopt it. Now perhaps we can get a group like NANOG interested in sponsoring a blacklist for spammer addresses?"

Comments

AOL Instant DoS v2.0

[JWSmythe]

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From: baduser@aol.com
To: gooduser@aol.com
Subject: Look At My Porn

Come look at my naked (sister|mother|wife|daughter) on her web cam doing all kinds of nasty things.

http://www.sco.com
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AOL , making DoS even easier.

Errors:

[after]

One, two, three, even four errors in that email! No exclemation points, no use of the _word_ "u" (like "c u therr". I mean, come on you even capitalized the first letter, what kind of AOL user would do that?? Really, you should really look into improving your writing techneques.

Re:Errors:

[Anonymous Coward]

If a grammar nazi is someone who tries to improve other people's bad English, is someone who tries to make other people's good English worse an all-American grammar hero?

Re:Errors:

[Imperator]

I mean, come on you even capitalized the first letter, what kind of AOL user would do that??

The kind that would also capitalize the letter after that, and the letter after, and...

Re:Sounds open to abuse

[Jace of Fuse!]

And after those two, you can move on to AOL... oh wait..

Blocking sites..

[Fullmetal Edward]

Oh yea, lets all block websites so the idiots can't get spam sent to them. God forbid we taught them not to be idiots. Hell lets put them all on Linux, then they won't even be able to find the "Interweb explored" icon and we'll never have to deal with them again... or package forks with a microsoft logo and tell them to insert into a plug socket... either way we win..

New twist on the idea

[F00]

Let's all just block AOL. Eliminating all of the stupid users that "support" the spammers. That should solve the problem (and many others), quite fast.

Re:Is this a *smart* idea?

[cyt0plas]

"From what I remember, you were posting quite soon after AOL got usenet access, but of course I would have no idea of where you were posting from if in fact you did post previous to Jan 4, 2005."

"On the google note, google says that you didn't start posting to alt.aol-sucks from AOL until January 4, 2005...almost 10 months (IIRC) after AOL had usenet."

Hmm... So, AOL got usenet in March 2004? Wow, they must be behind the times.