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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?"

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  1. AOL sucks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It does.

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  3. Al-Qaeda sympathisers battle 'infidels' with rap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Al-Qaeda's newest weapon against the West is a violent English-language rap tune urging young Muslims to wage holy war.

    The song is being broadcast on the internet in an attempt to lure music-loving youth into the terror network, which is blamed for the September 11 attacks on US cities and other bombings around the world.

    Titled Dirty Kuffar or Dirty Infidels, the song is performed by a London-based group which Islamists said was deeply sympathetic to Osama bin Laden's network.

    A music video accompanies the catchy yet violent lyrics, belted out by the group's lead singer Sheikh Terra - rap lingo for terror - and the Soul Salah Crew, a take-off on gritty British rappers So Solid Crew. Salah means righteousness or piety in Arabic.

    The song calls on Muslims to wage jihad, or holy war, against "Crusaders and apostate Arab rulers", saying they will be "thrown inna fire".

    "Be prepared for the battle with the infidels," it says.

    The video, which uses footage from news agencies and television, opens with images of a US soldier killing an Iraqi man and then cheering.

    "Dirty Kuffar wherever you are; From Kandahar to Ramallah; OBL (Osama bin Laden) Crew be like a shining star; like the way we destroy them two tower ha ha," one singer raps in front of images of the September 11 airliner attacks on New York's World Trade Centre.

    "Send 'em home in body bags," reads another blurb above images of US troops in Baghdad. A US-led military force toppled Saddam in April.

  4. BTf results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. MOD UP: AOL IS GAY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (nt)

  7. Goatse.cx by Dark$ide · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    As long as nobody ever sends a SPAM email with goatse.cx to someone's AOL id this might be a good idea.

    I wonder how they're going to filter the SPAM and how they're going to extract the URLs from the crap e-mail that they send to /dev/null.

    --

    Sigs. We don't need no steenking sigs.