Spam is traditionally defined as UCE. As his post is neither commercial nor e-mail, and since the unsolicited bit is debatable, this is quite a ways from spam.
The thread is the number 1 Google result for "Chad Deckard".
Deckard lists his type of business on an occupational license as an e-mail marketing company. I agree that spam is not his primary source of income, but he certainly doesn't seem to insist on the same ethics from his employees and associates.
Ameritech Tech
3 sites have been taken down as a result of the thread. Providers are not the only ones you can use to put pressure on spammers. I'm using:
Mintercorp
County Tax Assessor
Registrar
Several sites that had content stolen
Ameritech Tech
Don't want to be hunted down like a dog? Don't spam my anti-spam forum. If this was in my inbox, I would have reported it to Spam Cop and moved on...I don't have time to pursue every spammer. This guy is brazen enough to come into an anti-spam forum (and a fairly savvy one, at that) and advertise his BS product, one which I might add, that does not even belong to him.
The spammers should delight in the fact that the angry mobs of today don't string people up, but rather, simply report them to the authorities.
Regarding the snowballing of this, I doubt anything like that will happen. I and others have worked to carefully limit the scope of the thread, calling a dead end a dead end.
Not to mention that this guy was sending traditional spam as well. Examples at http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22antispamcard. com%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en
Hm. Good idea, but how do I coax it out of him? I don't guess he'll just hand it over. Let me scour putamericatowork.com and see if he gives any specific information.
Ameritech Tech
This is similar to what has happened. Crescive appears to be a front. When contacting the host, I told them that Crescive was potentially involved with the spammers, but they forwarded my complaint to Crescive and told me to contact them. Thank you, http://www.traci.net, I appreciate it.
Yes, you are. After the messages, we determined they've been sending spam. In the thread are linked a few examples of the spam they sent on 6/22/03. Searching groups.google.com, several pieces of spam can be found from both Heckman and Deckard.
We don't have boulders, ditches or steep elevation changes here on the Texas Gulf Coast. Also, geocaches are almost always camouflaged, not an obvious red and white.
I live in the Houston area. Houston is an enormous sprawling city. I don't want to have to buy a detailed map of a certain area every time I go Geocaching, because I can guarantee that a full Houston map could never be detailed enough to find a cache, not to mention that caches are often found near trails that are not on any map.
You might be surprised how hard it is to find some caches, even with the GPS. I went to the same cache in the Memorial area of Houston 3 different times and searched all over the coordinates before I finally found it hidden deep inside a tree trunk. I had to lift it out using the chain it was hanging from.
Also, not all caches are so simple. Some are double caches. For example, there's a cache in Meyer Park with GPS coordinates. After you get to the GPS coordinates, there's a riddle which tells you how to get to another cache, and the coordinates are not listed for the second cache. On top of that, the first was rather small and difficult to find. That one was a toughie.
They don't get paid for radio? Of course they do. They get paid royalties for the songs that are played. Why do you think college radio stations always play obscure music from artists who just want to get noticed? You didn't think they did it to look out for the little guy, did you?
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Riiiight, because Dick uses Linux so much. Heh!
Spam is traditionally defined as UCE. As his post is neither commercial nor e-mail, and since the unsolicited bit is debatable, this is quite a ways from spam.
It would seem that the First Amendment does not cover copyright infringment and fraud (lying about donations to charity).
He gets laid, daily.
Ameritech Tech
The thread is the number 1 Google result for "Chad Deckard". Deckard lists his type of business on an occupational license as an e-mail marketing company. I agree that spam is not his primary source of income, but he certainly doesn't seem to insist on the same ethics from his employees and associates. Ameritech Tech
3 sites have been taken down as a result of the thread. Providers are not the only ones you can use to put pressure on spammers. I'm using: Mintercorp County Tax Assessor Registrar Several sites that had content stolen Ameritech Tech
Don't want to be hunted down like a dog? Don't spam my anti-spam forum. If this was in my inbox, I would have reported it to Spam Cop and moved on...I don't have time to pursue every spammer. This guy is brazen enough to come into an anti-spam forum (and a fairly savvy one, at that) and advertise his BS product, one which I might add, that does not even belong to him.
The spammers should delight in the fact that the angry mobs of today don't string people up, but rather, simply report them to the authorities.
Regarding the snowballing of this, I doubt anything like that will happen. I and others have worked to carefully limit the scope of the thread, calling a dead end a dead end.
Ameritech Tech
But the bulletin boards are not. http://spaminsurance.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=4&s id=0db7765c751499feaffb167643298fbf
And now the page loads. Baffling. Some kind of temporary routing problem? Strange.
Most of the content on 3 domains was pulled by the spammer tonight. antispamcard.com spaminsurance.com thetalkingwebsite.com
I am unable to get to slashdot from my IP. I get on an open proxy and I'm able to get to slashdot. Banned? In God's name, why?
I couldn't have provided a better summary myself. Thank you.
Except that he didn't buy the software. As is posted in the thread, Mintercorp states that they have no record of him purchasing the software.
0Wn3D!
Not to mention that this guy was sending traditional spam as well. Examples at http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22antispamcard. com%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en
Thanks for the vote of confidence!
Hm. Good idea, but how do I coax it out of him? I don't guess he'll just hand it over. Let me scour putamericatowork.com and see if he gives any specific information. Ameritech Tech
This is similar to what has happened. Crescive appears to be a front. When contacting the host, I told them that Crescive was potentially involved with the spammers, but they forwarded my complaint to Crescive and told me to contact them. Thank you, http://www.traci.net, I appreciate it.
Thusly, the title of the article is In Pursuit of a Spammer. One company has already stated that legal action may be pending. We've only just begun.
Yes, you are. After the messages, we determined they've been sending spam. In the thread are linked a few examples of the spam they sent on 6/22/03. Searching groups.google.com, several pieces of spam can be found from both Heckman and Deckard.
This particular spammer is selling another company's software without permission.
We don't have boulders, ditches or steep elevation changes here on the Texas Gulf Coast. Also, geocaches are almost always camouflaged, not an obvious red and white.
I live in the Houston area. Houston is an enormous sprawling city. I don't want to have to buy a detailed map of a certain area every time I go Geocaching, because I can guarantee that a full Houston map could never be detailed enough to find a cache, not to mention that caches are often found near trails that are not on any map.
You might be surprised how hard it is to find some caches, even with the GPS. I went to the same cache in the Memorial area of Houston 3 different times and searched all over the coordinates before I finally found it hidden deep inside a tree trunk. I had to lift it out using the chain it was hanging from.
Also, not all caches are so simple. Some are double caches. For example, there's a cache in Meyer Park with GPS coordinates. After you get to the GPS coordinates, there's a riddle which tells you how to get to another cache, and the coordinates are not listed for the second cache. On top of that, the first was rather small and difficult to find. That one was a toughie.
Its a fun 'sport'.
Especially if you spell grammar wrong.
Now they won't have to buy the rights to Lenny Kravitz songs for MSN commercials.
They don't get paid for radio? Of course they do. They get paid royalties for the songs that are played. Why do you think college radio stations always play obscure music from artists who just want to get noticed? You didn't think they did it to look out for the little guy, did you?