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FBI Raids Home of Spam King Alan Ralsky
wstearns writes "The Detroit News is reporting that the FBI has raided Alan Ralsky's home. In the raid, the FBI took computers and financial records, effectively shutting him down. Mr. Ralsky has been frequently covered here."
This is an excellent opportunity to show your support that we STRONGLY support their action and efforts!
We do?
I couldn't care less. I hardly get any spam at all. I use spamassassin on my server and junkmatcher on my client. I'm sure I won't notice a difference at all with this douche.
The FBI surely has more important things to be doing, like going after corporate white collar criminals (Enron or Worldcom, anyone?) or Karl Rove or actual violent criminals.. Spam may be a nuisance, but it never killed anyone.
You practically took the words right out of my mouth. If you don't like it, filter it. Problem solved. I've started using dspam and what I really like about it is that the emails that you train it to filter don't actually have to be spam, they can simply be any email that you don't want, whether it's v1agra spams or annoying jokes from your aunt. Because it's a purely statistical filter, it doesn't care what you feed it, it just filters according to your preferences.
You had me at "dicks fuck assholes".
My original comment was rapidly moderated up to +5 Interesting and spawned a lot of replies. Then it sank to "1,Interesting". Looking at the moderation screen for the article, apparently it has now been moderated 0 times.
And I thought capricious editors were only for the paranoid. Thanks, guys.
No, I don't get lots of spam. Most of it is denied at the SMTP protocol level and is never even written to disk. Most of the rest is filtered out based on content and /dev/null'd before it reaches the mailbox delivery step. The client side filter is then left to handle the very small quantity of mail that is difficult to discern with more general measures and makes it past the SMTP and MDA level and is of course then downloaded by the useragent for fine-tuning of the local filter.
Taking a guy's belongings and sticking him in prison (like most people suggest should be done) isn't really a justified response for wasiting a few kilobytes of bandwidth on my server every day. And it most certainly isn't worth granting government that "exception" they need to start prodding their way around. Today it's spammers. Tomorrow, it's anyone else they just happen not to like.
Oh wait, indymedia... the new obscenity strike force... nevermind. Too late.