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AOL Blocking Spammers' Web Sites

Posted by Hemos on from the fighting-the-good-fight dept.

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?"

3 of 238 comments (clear)

  1. AOL Instant DoS v2.0 by JWSmythe · · Score: 5, Funny

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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.

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    Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
  2. Errors: by after · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. New twist on the idea by F00 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.