Paid To Spam

Lathiat writes "It seems that spammers have taken a new distributed approach to sending spam, and you get paid for it. Virtual MDA will pay you $1 per CPU hour their program is running to relay spam around the world. Obviously this is not something you should do, most users are all to familiar with the atrocity of sorting through up to hundreds of spams a day just to find one real email, Although it has been previously reported that some users love spam, I for one don't. Is there any way end users can fight back against people like this?" At $1/hour, this sounds like a low-gain way to infuriate both your friends and perfect strangers.

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Morals and Conscience of running NT4/Windows 98

[un1xl0ser]

Netcraft says they are running:

NT4/Windows 98 Microsoft-IIS/4.0 14-Apr-2004 216.204.150.246 Atriks, LLC

My moral obligation to not deal with a company using NT4 or IIS 4.0 trumps the spam morality dilema.

- un1xl0ser

I hate spam

[smatt-man]

I hate spam too, unless it comes in a can, but...

Imagine a beowulf cluster...