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Hurricanes Affecting Spammers?
Ant writes "According to BusinessWeek Online's article, Lots of folks think the hurricane hits in Florida, the Sunshine (and Spam!) State have taken slowed the volume of spam." I've not noticed any decrease.
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"Lots of folks think the hurricane hits in Florida, the Sunshine (and Spam!) State have taken slowed the volume of spam."
Lots of folks think there are black helicopters poisoning the citizens of our country too, but that doesn't make it the slightest bit true.
According to my Spam Stats (Coral Link) the level of spam going through my server is relatively steady.
If they think hurricanes in Florida did a decent job of taking out some spammers, they should wait 'til the next 6.0M+ earthquake hits Silicon Valley...
-Rob
Marriage doesn't have to suck!
No, silly, spam is situated in California... The porn sites people sign up for are situated in Florida... Porn spam is down, overall spam is not.
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At least I'm still get personal emails from high ranking democrats, why just today John Kerry himself sent me one.
It's nature's way of making sure that the Nov. 2 elections won't be screwed up by that state. If everybody is evacuated, there won't be anybody left to vote.
If it's true, then let's not waste another moment -- blast a trench and cut the whole state off from the country while we have the chance! It'll solve a bunch of other problems in November too....
I just checked mine too. Same result. I am not spam-worthy anymore. Damn.
Well, you might call it spam or whatever but atleast somebody was sending me email.
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Solution to anything(Political/Economical/etc..) is to wipe out Florida.
I live in Indiana, but the company I develop for (and where they keep are mail server) is in Pensacola. There is apparently no power (or no server? who knows?) down there today, so I have received ZERO spams.
Just then the floating disembodied head of Colonel Sanders started yelling Everything You Know Is Wrong!-Weird Al
A spokesperson for Hormel Foods reports that there has been no decrease in spam either ... however, there has been an increased interest in Spam Gifts and also in the Spam Museum.
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God promised you that he would never flood your ass out to sea and drown you. He never promised that he wouldn't send a category 4 hurricane after those who steal others' bandwidth. Be warned cyber sinners the end is fucking nigh!!!
Click here or a puppy gets stomped!
Hurricanes are living proof that God hates spammers and wants us to be happy.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, write technology blogs.
Wow, some people really get addicted to this stuff, don't they?
"Stupid hurricane....always taking me away from my Everquest time!"
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Funny, my wife's theory is that God is telling Florida that they need to learn how to count. Doesn't matter for who, just learn.
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That my penis was finally big enough... They do stop sending you penis enlargement emails once it is big enough right??
Date: Thu, 16 SEP 2004 15:44:20 -0800 (PST)
From: ezeani madu
To: ezeanimadu@yahoo.com
Subject: ASSISTANCE NEEDED
From: Madu Nominees Carbez.
1120 Louisiana Blvd
Louisana-America.
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Regards,
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Nothin' like "takin' the wind out of their sails" or sales...
I hear there are people on the east coast saying the same thing, that the damage to Fla is to rectify the theft of votes.
But, if Ivan the Terrible hit/s Louisiana and turned it to LOOuisiana, would that mean this is to wipe out voodoo or something?
Might be interesting if Louisiana and Florida were adjacents states. Imagine combining Voodoo and Spam...
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When that shit hits your inbox...
'VOODAMN!"
David Syes
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I must agree. I barely saw any SPAM last week. However, I think that may have to do with my losing power for 128 straight hours.
But then there would be no more Spring Break Girls Gone Wild videos...Floridas only redeeming product!
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Maybe the reduction in spam is causing hurricanes...
We must all realize something though. In actuality there is no Florida, just Southern Georgia, Northern Cuba and the New York Colony. Unfortunately, I'm on the border between Southern Georgia and the New York Colony