Yes, I think it hit #1 for a while. By "actually wrote good sci-fi", I assume you mean Robert Heinlein?:) BTW, the "bar-bet" story
is generally regarded as just a story, and I'm sure it does mention that somewhere on xenu.net.
It was an expensive victory for CoS. When Slashdot took it down, they also posted a large list of critical sites and links. That and the go-round with Google helped bump xenu.net's ranking up to #2.
BTW, a new photo of what CoS seems to have done to the Lisa McPherson memorial brick. scroll down a little
Since Slashdot's favourite spam king Al Ralsky is connected to at least some of the people involved, he's probably hiding in the bunker of his Spam Palace and feeling poorly.
I think everyone should send him a Christmas card to cheer him up. (Or maybe DVDs of the David Cronenberg remake of It's a Wonderful Life.)
Some of these spammers were in Florida, and I know that Florida has laws that let you keep large personal assets like houses even in bankruptcy. (Strange how many scam artists move to Florida.) Does it matter that the judgement was from a federal court?
The question is probably moot since the spammers vanished before the case started. (They didn't didn't even send lawyers to the court.)
Lots of little spammers pop up, but those are easier to deal with. These three were from near the top of the spammer "food" chain. ($700M against Amp Dollar aka ROKSO listed Daniel Walls is a spam partner/accomplice of Alan Ralsky.) That and that RICO was used has got to be worrying to all the kings, queens, princes and popes of spam.
A lot of spam might come from outside the US, but it's usually at the direction of people in the US. (I'll bet that these people used a lot of out-sourced web sites in China and such, but the money trail led back to the US.)
Attack of the sucking parasites
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Only 9,219 out of 53,883 peers (17 %) have an uptime longer than one hour after they finished downloading. For 10 hours this number has decreased to only 1,649 peers (3.1 per cent), and for 100 hours to a mere 183 peers (0.34 per cent).
Which explains why I frequently get DHCP IP addresses that are polluted with constant BitTorrent checks on various ports for days afterwards. The previous IP owner downloaded, dined and dashed. (And probably came back right after changing IPs and started his next download feast.)
1. Get paid to comment spam for customers.
2. Get paid for removing your own comments after a delay to get spam hits.
3. ???
4. Profit!
Re:spam needn't be a problem anyhow...
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I'm sure that C/R keeps your mailbox clear, but I was wondering what it does to other people's boxes. If a spammer forges joe@example.com as the sender, does joe@example.com get an unwanted email asking for a response?
If your C/R system sends a challenge to someone with a different C/R system, what happens when a challenge is challenged?
Systems that dump your spam on someone else aren't very useful.
With our luck, we'll finally discover signals from extra-terrestrials.. and the week after that, the frequency get plowed-under by wall-to-wall signals from Jackboot-in-the-Box takeout windows.
Officially, there's 8 fluid drams to the fluid ounce, but I suspect that a wee dram is much larger than that.
Chorus:
Just a wee deoch `n doris, just a wee dram, that's all.
Just a wee deoch `n doris afore ye gang awa.
There's a wee wife waitin' in a wee but an `ten.
If you can say, "It's a brar bricht moonlicht nicht",
Then yer a'richt, ye ken.
I suspect that a wee dram is more like a few or several ounces of scotch.
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How does that challenge/response system avoid sending unwanted email to forged "senders"? How well does it work when initiating email with someone that uses the XYZ C/R system?
You can bet that spammers will study this definition and come up with many lame excuses why their shit doesn't (a) stink (b) meet the official definition of spam and it is therefore illegal to call them spammers and against their frea speach and their imaginary lawyers will be suing you.
There might have been another period of oscillation when evil mutant blue-green algae started eating the CO2 and farting toxic oxygen--totally throwing off the climate balance, geology and killing most other life.
As all the pedophiles and kidnappers suddenly realize that those cell phone/GPS/watch bracelet tracking gizmos on the kids don't work. (Or the ankle units they themselves might be wearing while on parole.)
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They should allow people to open Wal-Marts -- but only if you read and agree to their conditions first.
Yes, I think it hit #1 for a while. By "actually wrote good sci-fi", I assume you mean Robert Heinlein? :) BTW, the "bar-bet" story
is generally regarded as just a story, and I'm sure it does mention that somewhere on xenu.net.
BTW, a new photo of what CoS seems to have done to the Lisa McPherson memorial brick. scroll down a little
And to make the ROKSO list, you have to have been kicked off of three ISPs.
I think everyone should send him a Christmas card to cheer him up. (Or maybe DVDs of the David Cronenberg remake of It's a Wonderful Life.)
The question is probably moot since the spammers vanished before the case started. (They didn't didn't even send lawyers to the court.)
No problem. They'll just send out an email where you send a buck to the five names on the list...
... And a ink-cartridge in a pear treeeeee!
A lot of spam might come from outside the US, but it's usually at the direction of people in the US. (I'll bet that these people used a lot of out-sourced web sites in China and such, but the money trail led back to the US.)
1. Get paid to comment spam for customers.
2. Get paid for removing your own comments after a delay to get spam hits.
3. ???
4. Profit!
If your C/R system sends a challenge to someone with a different C/R system, what happens when a challenge is challenged?
Systems that dump your spam on someone else aren't very useful.
With our luck, we'll finally discover signals from extra-terrestrials .. and the week after that, the frequency get plowed-under by wall-to-wall signals from Jackboot-in-the-Box takeout windows.
They're slime, I tell you, slime!
Happy now?
How does that challenge/response system avoid sending unwanted email to forged "senders"? How well does it work when initiating email with someone that uses the XYZ C/R system?
I thought most people blocked Topica years ago.
You can bet that spammers will study this definition and come up with many lame excuses why their shit doesn't (a) stink (b) meet the official definition of spam and it is therefore illegal to call them spammers and against their frea speach and their imaginary lawyers will be suing you.
There might have been another period of oscillation when evil mutant blue-green algae started eating the CO2 and farting toxic oxygen--totally throwing off the climate balance, geology and killing most other life.
One's complement? But everyone knows that they used two's complement back then--just look at Noah's ark!
Cool. I'm going to mount cameras on my shoes, pointing up. People shouldn't expect unreasonable privacy in .. oh wait .. public places? Rats!
As all the pedophiles and kidnappers suddenly realize that those cell phone/GPS/watch bracelet tracking gizmos on the kids don't work. (Or the ankle units they themselves might be wearing while on parole.)
No driving speed restrictions on teenagers during GPS shutdown! YEEHAH!
Hard copy maps and, in extreme emergencies, stop and ask for directions?