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AOL Files First Spim Lawsuit
Iphtashu Fitz writes "CNet News is reporting that 4 major internet providers - AOL, Earthlink, Microsoft, and Yahoo, have filed another bunch of lawsuits against spammers. What makes this round interesting is that AOL has filed the first ever lawsuit against against spam that targets Instant Messenger clients, or spim. So far spim has only affected relatively small numbers of users but the problem is growing, which is why AOL is targeting it now."
Is that Italian Spam?
I'm thinking about it, therefore I might be.
It's kind of a cool MIPS emulator, but maybe AOL just couldn't figure out how to work it. :-)
~ I am logged on, therefore I am.
Is Spim the low fat version of Spam?
Wow, I was totally clueless to the worldwide spim problem. The large corporations must have been putting so much span on this story that we weren't even aware of the real truth!
Spim, Spim, Spim, Spim, ...
junk? How SPAM/SPIM/SPEM/SPOM/SPUM (and sometimes SPYM) much different than them sending millions of AOL CDs in the mail every year?
imSpam, spam i am
i'd like to sell you
c1al1s and a s3x cam
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
if any of you read the full artical you would note that are the bottom of the artical it defined spim as "spam that targets Instant Messenger clients" not a spelling error, and he didnt make a mistake, stop griping.
True, but they are still the trailer park of the internet.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
the real problem lies in the fact that spammers have an incentive to send spam. if nobody would buy penis enlargement pills, accept online mortgages, and order medicine online, we wouldn't have this problem.
Alright, I guess it's time i fessed up. I apologize for buying everything that I find in my inbox. OTOH, I now have a 14" penis, am buying my 9th home, and keep getting these packages in the mail filled with wonderful little pills...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
What makes this round interesting is that AOL has filed the first ever lawsuit against against spam
Okay - against against spam? Are we in Newspeak now where it is double-plus ungood instant messenging? Is it for spamming now?
It's AOL, so I'm not sure which side of the marketing wagon I should be riding on.
This space for rent.
> spim is instant messenger spam for anyone confused.
I'm confused why we need another name for a known plague. Spam is Spam.
Rather, spim is spam. But, spam isn't quite spim. So it could be said that spam spans spim but spim doesn't span spam.
Cell phone spam is known as spem, and telephone spam (aka crank calls) is called spham. No really.
Spam on TV is called Stam and spam on DVD is called sdam. But spam in mp3's or audio is just called noise.
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That is, unless the rest of us get caught up in collateral damage resulting from reduced privacy or cloggage of internet.
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Crap. Oh well. I guess I'll just have to go with something slightly less descriptive.
Never again will you be able to wear shorts or swimming trunks in public! Unless of course you buy the new PenisPocket(tm) to help conceal your ungainly organ, only $19.99 (or two for $35.99)! My new website on a server in Russia will be coming online for you to visit soon, and if you forget don't worry I will send a few hundred reminders into your mailbox tomorrow.....
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
ARTHUR: Old crone! [rewr!][music stops] Is there anywhere in this town where we could buy a shrubbery?[dramatic chord]
OLD CRONE: Who sent you?
ARTHUR: The Corporations Who Say 'Spim'.
[...]
ARTHUR: Spim!
CRONE:[cough]
BEDEVERE: Spam!
ARTHUR: No, no, no, no, i--
BEDEVERE: Spam!
ARTHUR: No, it's not that. It's 'Spim'.
BEDEVERE: Spam!
ARTHUR: No, no. 'Spim'. You're not doing it properly. No.
BEDEVERE: Spim!
ARTHUR and BEDEVERE: Spim!
ARTHUR: That's it. That's it. You've got it.
[...]
ROGER THE SHRUBBER: Are you saying 'Spim' to that old woman?
ARTHUR: Erm,... yes.
ROGER: Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say 'spim' at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
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