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Paid To Spam

Posted by timothy on from the shoot-now dept.

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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  1. Timmy the Wet Blanket by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 0, Troll
    Just try getting through to a human when you tell most ISPs that you want to close your account. Hell, they've written articles about what happens when you try with AOL and MSN.

    So keep your editorializing to yourself, Timothy. If I can finally get that ISP account closed AND earn $2-3 in the time it takes my ISP to sort through the hundreds of complaints against me and kill my login, then I'm all for it.

    If you're really so high-and-mighty against this, sign up to sell those "CPU hours" the site says they wayt, and iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -j DROP -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 --dport 25, tough guy. You can bet that you'll never see a dime. Of course they're going to insist that they only send a check once you reach $100 or some number like that. And how many ISPs will tolerate four days of spam complaints? Hint: None of them are in the USA. And if you're not in the USA, ask around and see who's heard of an "international small claims court."

  2. Lighten up by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 0, Troll
    Just try getting through to a human when you tell most ISPs that you want to close your account. Hell, they've written articles about what happens when you try with AOL and MSN.

    So keep your editorializing to yourself, Timothy. If I can finally get that ISP account closed AND earn $2-3 in the time it takes my ISP to sort through the hundreds of complaints against me and kill my login, then I'm all for it.

    If you're really so high-and-mighty against this, or just want to keep your account with your ISP, sign up to sell those "CPU hours" the site says they want, and then iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -j DROP -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 --dport 25 since there's no rule against it, tough guy.