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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."
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.
Spam + IM (instant messanging) = SPIM.
This is AOL's stats, so far today - and it's only 3PM here on the west coast.
SPAM Blocked Today:
846,170,968
This month:
33,661,697,872
Instant Messages
Sent Today:
1,151,202,297
Members Online Now:
2,410,612
You can watch the numbers on http://www.corp.aol.com/
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
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
AOL has a long history of suits against spammers. See this list of litigation they've filed.
Pity they often place themselves on the wrong side of legislative battles, though. They were a driving force behind the CAN-SPAM Act, which guarantees the right to send unsolicited, commercial, bulk email.
Tom Geller
**if nobody would buy penis enlargement pills, accept online mortgages, and order medicine online, we wouldn't have this problem.**
not really, that's false.
all you need is an ILLUSION, a THOUGHT, someone just needs to _believe_ that it would work, then we're going to have the problem.
so.. someone starts to spam, for whatever reason, like there's no tomorrow.. if he makes money or no doesn't matter for some other scumbags to believe that "hey, he must be doing money, otherwise why would he have done this? I GOTTA GET ON THIS BOAT!" and the circle is sure to continue. like the biggest chain letter of all time.
I'd be very surprised if spamming worked for other than like 1 % of the spammers. like mlm, 99% are just going to end up loosing money.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
This'll probably get me modded down, but I was once asked to create a spim Perl script for somebody (for money) and here's the source:
/; $key =~ tr/+/ /; /; $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C",g ; .= ", $value";e ep 1;
#!usr/bin/perl
if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'GET')
{
@pairs = split(/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});
}
elsif ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST')
{
read (STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
if ($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'})
{
@getpairs = split(/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});
push(@pairs,@getpairs);
}
}
else
{
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Use the POST or GET methods."; }
foreach $pair (@pairs) { ($key, $value) = split (/=/, $pair);
$key =~ tr/+/
$key =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
$value =~ tr/+/
hex($1))/e
$value =~ s///g; if ($formdata{$key}) { $formdata{$key}
}
else { $formdata{$key} = $value; } } 1;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Sent message from $formdata{'sendername'}, to
$formdata{'recipient'}!";
use lib '.';
use Net::AIM;
$aim = new Net::AIM;
$conn = $aim->newconn (Screenname => $formdata{'sendername'},
Password => $formdata{'password'});
foreach my $i (0..4) {
$aim->do_one_loop || last;
sleep 1;
}
$aim->send_im ( $formdata{'recipient'},$formdata{'message'});
sl
print "";
It takes the following variables:
$sendername, $password (for AOL login), $recipient and $message by either POST or GET.
I kinda regret doing it now but it paid the rent at the time...