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Spam Capital of the World

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-of-the-U.S. dept.

ermita2 writes "The South Florida Sun-Sentinel published this weekend a story about how South Florida is home to more spammers than any other place in the world according to Spamhaus. The reason for that seems to be Florida's long history and friendliness with dirty business from real estate speculation to the penny stock scammers. Among the interesting tidbits is anecdotal evidence that the amount of spam worldwide fell for a while after last year's hurricanes in Florida."

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  1. Great now we have a target. by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    So if we hit florada with some bombs then we should be spam free right?

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  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

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  3. Hurricanes are evidence........ by ARRRLovin · · Score: 4, Funny

    .....that even God hates spam.

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    -Randy
    1. Re:Hurricanes are evidence........ by cpghost · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...that even God hates spam.

      God, being very lenient, didn't hate spam from the very beginning. Only after spammers discovered his secret e-mail address, and didn't stop spamming him after he repeatedly clicked on the dysfunctional "remove me" links, did he become upset and started complaining by raising big hurricanes.

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  4. God Hates Spammers by Jeremy.DeGroot · · Score: 5, Funny
    South Florida is so notorious that some experts attributed a short-term decline in global spam after last year's hurricanes to the assumption that the storms disrupted spammers' operations.

    There is a just and loving god after all!

    1. Re:God Hates Spammers by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's got nothing to do with [Gg]od.

      Increases in spam results in increases in usage of electricity and in tempers, both of which increase heat*. This leads to global warming causing adverse conditions such as last year's hurricanes.

      *Left to reader as an exercise to prove the relation

  5. Job interview by digitalhermit · · Score: 4, Funny

    I live in sunny S. Florida... Last year I had a phone interview that went something like:

    Interviewer: So tell me what you know about mail?

    Me: Well, I've configured dozens of mail servers. I've configured everything from the DNS down to the spam filtering software.

    Interviewer: Spam filtering software?

    Me: All aspects. I can configure software such as SpamAssassin and of course hard Postfix and Sendmail against lots of spam attacks. Depending on what the customer wants, I can set it up to be super aggressive or not.

    Interviewer: So you don't agree with the practice?

    Me: Man, I hate spam. These people don't realize the headaches that it can cause. I wish they'd get some fungus that science hasn't heard about yet.

    [snip]

    Interviewer: So any questions that you'd like to ask us?

    Me: There are a couple. Things such as salary and of course the job description. The headhunter was a little vague.

    Interviewer: We're an, umm, direct marketing association.

    Me: Direct marketing?

    Interviewer: Yeah, we send email to people who have expressed an interest in our products.

    Me: [light beginning to flicker on] So how do you know they're interested?

    Interviewer: They have visited related sites...

    The interview pretty went south from there. He finally told me that I perhaps wasn't the best candidate for the position. I agreed.