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Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered
Karellen !-P writes "Vardan Kushnir, a notorious russian spammer who headed the English learning centers, the Center for American English, the New York English Centre and the Centre for Spoken English, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head."
Vladimir Putin unsubscribes the way we all want to.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Now that his head has been bashed into 50% its original size, do those penis enlargments work on the "big head?"
Click here or a puppy gets stomped!
if he was beaten with a can of spam?
From a hidden microphone at the scene of the murder:
"You are receiving *WHAM* this blow to the head *WHAM* because you are part of a *WHAM* specially-selected list of *WHAM* people who agreed to receive *WHAM* blows to the head *WHAM*.
To stop *WHAM* receiving these *WHAM* blows to the head, please *WHAM* email us at no-more-please@optout.blowtothehead. com and *WHAM* we will remove you from our list of *WHAM* blow-to-the-head-club members *WHAM* (heh, we said "club"!) *WHAM* within 24 to 48 hours."
It should be!
Sic semper spammeris!
^_^
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-He's using that big open relay in the sky now . . .
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-In New Jersey, killing a spamlord is only a class B misedemeanor . .
-Whatta you call a spammer with a crushed skull lying in a pool of his own blood?
A good start!
Seriously though that's pretty f*cked up. Spammer or not, no one deserves that.
The fact that the murder weapon appear to have been a copy of O'Reilly's "Postfix: The Definitive Guide" is condidered a relevant clue at this point.
He died after suffering repeated blows to the head
Whoever did it must have some strong lungs.
That SpamAssassin really takes its job seriously, yo.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
... that we're all available to support each other's alibis.
If I find your post sufficiently objectionable, should I be permitted to kill you too?
Seriously, I expected to see a bit more tempered response from a reasonably sensible user community.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
In Soviet Russia, SPAM unsubscribes YOU!
Why must we be animals?
Ummm... because we are?
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
I'm sorry...it's all my fault. I sneaked in and stenciled "Click here to unsubscribe" on his forehead.
;-)
I guess people just did as instructed...albeit with a 30lb 'mouse'
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (x) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
(x) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
(x) Wow, this might work!
This just in! Police have release a photo of the murder weapon!
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
...finally come back to haunt you.
In Soviet Russia, monkey punches you?
In Soviet Russia, spam assasinates YOU.
This gives a whole new meaning to SpamAssassin.
On the one hand, this kind of thing shouldn't happen in a civilized society.
On the other hand, I'm having a hard time resisting the urge to make a crack about how the repeated blows to the head came from an enlarged penis.
I am so smart!
I am so smart!
S-M-R-T!
I mean S-M-A-R-T!
Please, don't spoil everything. As a fellow russian, I find this +5 informative posts about white bear mobs walking around here drinking vodka, making botnets from Comcast customers and firing AKA-47's at one another highly amusing.
Anyway, how about making Jul 25 an international anti-spam day? It just writes itself in the calendar, really it does...
I expected to see a bit more tempered response from a reasonably sensible user community.
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I bet he's made a lot of money with all that spam. And as any Russian will tell you, don't fuck with the Mob. If only there were some way for his relatives to inherit the money without attracting attention...
Hey, I have an idea!
DEAR SIR,
ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF. I AM MR. VLADIMIR NATREVSKY, COUNCIL TO ONE MR. VARDAN
KUSHNIR. I HAVE IN MY POSESSION FOURTY-TWO MILLION US DOLLARS ($42,000,000.00) IN VARIOUS
BANK ACCOUNTS, FROM MR. KUSHNIR'S ASSORTED BUSINESSES. Due to the violent nature of Mr. Kushiner's
death, his reletives do not wish to attract attention to themselves by claiming the money. they
have enlisted my aid in finding someone outside of russia to help them. the money will be deposited into
a bank account of your choosing in the unites states. once this has been accomplished, and with great
sadness, Mr. Kushiner's family will flee the russia that they love to start a new life. the money,
less your commission, will them be transferred to them in their new homeland.
FOR YOUR HELP, YOU WILL RECEIVE 30% OF THEIR FORTUNE ($12,600,000), AND 10% ($4,200,000) WILL BE SET ASIDE FOR
EXPENSES.
YOURS FAITHFULLY,
Mr. VLADIMIR NATREVSKY
It's just that the letter H sounds like N. :-)
It was Bill Gates. He couldn't figure out what CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet did, so he "bought them out" to avoid competing with them.
I also know Russians...and I agree with a lot of your comment except this
you had better know Russian if you go there, tavaresh, because random passers by will beat you if you don't
No they will not (at least in Moscow). If you do not speak Russian, most people will think you are either a rich tourist or someone in politics. In either case you may be too important to get into a fight with. However, they will steal your wallet.
badness 10000
And who among us is not a nerd? Let him be cast out.
And what country allows its military-industrial complex to buy out the president elections and generally pwn the public as it pleases?
I'll take 'What is The United States?' for $400, Alex.
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