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Spammer Apologizes

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-can-he-give-me-my-time-back dept.

radarsat1 writes "The Globe and Mail reports that Canadian professional spammer Eric Head, after being sued by Yahoo!, has apologized formally for his behaviour and vows to mend his ways by teaching others about the dangers of the internet. Let's hope others begin to take his lead."

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  1. JavaScript by Walrus99 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Use JavaScript to write your e-mail on your web page to fool the spambots. Won't tell you how, to avoid mono-culture, but easy to do yourself. Or set up a cgi web page on your site for e-mail adresses that require a button click to get to.

  2. Re:Spam sucks by rossz · · Score: 5, Informative
    Pipe the subject and body to a shell script that returns the number of spelling errors (via aspell etc.).
    That isn't going to work. I did a study of spelling errors in spam and legitimate email People's spelling in email messages is so bad, plus with technical jargon and/or programming terms not in the dictionary, the error rate in non-spam vs spam is not different enough to make spell checking a viable antispamming tool.

    You can see my results here: Spam Spell

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    -- Will program for bandwidth
  3. Re:Subject: Apology by Eggplant62 · · Score: 2, Informative
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    Oh, look.... It's Ryan Campion and AMR Ventures!

    Spamhaus is getting amazingly good at figuring out who the spammer is behind most of this stuff. Do a host lookup on that spammed url, plug it into the SBL Lookup page, then check the results. For the fake viagra spams, I've found links back to Campion, Ralsky and Peter Francis-Macrae from England.