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A Day In The Life Of A Spammer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pay-it-forward dept.

kaip writes "Internetnews.com has a story of a spammer. The individual sends 60 million spam emails for four days worth of work and claims that one in 19 of AOL users clicks the links in his mortgage spam (this number should however be taken with a grain of salt, see rules 1 and 2). Maybe not everybody has heard of the Boulder Pledge... The article also tells how the CAN-SPAM Act, which legalises spamming, is turning the US into the spam haven of the world. Currently, 86 percent of the total spam volume is coming from the States."

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  1. Rule 4 is defective... by LostCluster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Rule #4: The natural course of a spamming business is to go bankrupt.

    The natural course of any process is towards entropy. All schedules of organization, including a business, will naturally fall apart if its owners don't work hard to keep it together.

    Any business is on a natural course towards bankruptcy, it isn't limited to just spammers. People get born, and eventually they die. Businesses come into life when they get incorperated, and eventually die when they declare Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and can have near-death experiences as they file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.]

    We all wish spammers will just go bankrupt, but the truth is that all businesses will eventually. It's only a matter of time.

  2. No, email spam was illeqal by nurb432 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Using the same simple test that makes unsolicited faxes illegal ( and us-mail spam legal ):

    The recipient has to pay for the receipt of the unsolicited advertisements..

    --
    ---- Booth was a patriot ----
  3. Re:CAN-SPAM Doesn't Legalize SPAM by rokzy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    in many states SPAM was illegal, and the laws were relatively well-written.

    then they were all overiden by the CAN-SPAM piece of shit spewed from the mouths of the marketers, the fucking twats.

  4. Re:If everyone greylisted spam would die by fmaxwell · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So lets get the ISPs to implement greylisting and spamassassin on their servers.

    You do that. And make sure all of the users are satisfied with greylisting too. Let me know how it goes.

    I use my ISPs email servers and have implemented spamassassin on my home systems. I get about 5 to 8 spam in my inbox each week. The other 100 to 200 spam a week end up in a holding folder so I don't have to deal with them.

    Correction: You get 105-208 per week. Spam filtering the spam into folders and then saying that it's the same as not getting it is really missing the point. That bandwidth, storage, etc. are not free and your ISP is passing on the costs to you and all of the other users.

    Of course one sure way to get this problem resolved by our congress critters is to make them deal with their own email accounts for a month or two. Currently they are shielded by a host of assitants who pre screen all their email.

    Worse than that, most have gone to web forms so that they have no public e-mail address.

    Once they deleted the 5000th viagra ad they would get busy making the spammers life hell by creating a group to track them down and put them in jail.

    Don't forget that Senator Bob Dole was hawking Viagra on TV ads...