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Posted on 04/24/2003 10:59:07 PM PDT by green team 1999
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To: green team 1999
Any business that has to make a living by cheating and conning its customers deserves to be shut down. Death to the spammers!
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posted on
04/24/2003 11:04:29 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
( In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: green team 1999
They found that e-mail addresses posted on websites or in newsgroups attract the most spam.
they just discovered this in 2002? ... this has been known for years ... maybe they should have asked and somebody would have told them ...
There's an easy way to cure spam, declare a spammer as somebody who sends 5 or more unsolicited emails per day ... bill the companies who advertise with spam, by the receiving server (like Yahoo!, AOL, a private or public company) $5 per incident for receiving / storing unsolicited email ... have employees / recipients forward spam to cental collection ... generate the bill ... when they don't pay, file a lawsuit and shut 'em down one-by-one ...
that will cure 90% of spam inside 6 months ... guaranteed ... permanently ... sue the advertisers ... pass the bill in Congress ... done deal ...
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posted on
04/24/2003 11:16:30 PM PDT
by
Bobby777
To: green team 1999
From the headline, I thought this might be an article about a meat processing plant just up the road in Austin, MN.
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posted on
04/24/2003 11:18:22 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
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To: green team 1999
Here is another source
spam
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posted on
04/24/2003 11:19:44 PM PDT
by
tubebender
(?)
To: green team 1999
AOL says it hates spamm yet they are one of the worst spammers ... Ack! I just hate AOL ... #^%&$$#&$$ !
Regardless of the stories -- I believe spammers get new Email address from ISP's. I periodically change my ISP and/ or my Email address. But within a few months your address will get out.
Other sources are Internet sign up sites. And they have the ability to scan the Internet and pick up addresses from web sites by Spyders and Robot scanners.
Oh, be careful writing to Ezines to raise a ruckus. Some like Salo* might turn your address in to porn sites.
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posted on
04/24/2003 11:29:31 PM PDT
by
ex-Texan
(primates capitulards toujours en quete de fromage!)
To: tubebender
Hmmmmmmmm, Spam!
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posted on
04/24/2003 11:29:47 PM PDT
by
Smedley
To: green team 1999
"AOL is currently waging its own war on spammers," AOL is nothing but a bunch of hypocrites. They send more unsolicited email than anyone. They're always trying to sell their broadband or something else.
Yesterday, I was very tired when I got home form work. I received three telephone solicitations during dinner and another later after I had fallen asleep. I fell asleep and another telephone solicitator called and woke me up!!!! I'VE NEVER HAD A SPAMMER WAKE ME UP!!! After I was awaken, I turned on my computer and deleted the spam in less than five seconds. I don't like spam but I despise TELEPHONE SOLICITERS AT LEAST TEN FOLD MORE!!!!
I also believe that AOL subscribers tend to get the most spam because the spammers consider them to be somewhat ignorant if they continue to use AOL. The ONLY reason I keep AOL is because I've used it for years and a lot of friends and business associates have the email address. I surf the Internet using Exployer and my cable connection.
I really need to dump AOL since they're run by a bunch of liberals. Maybe I should go to the plan where I can just check the email?
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posted on
04/24/2003 11:30:29 PM PDT
by
boycott
To: Bobby777
Well, this does sound like a scientific survey. They tracked the email addresses, how they were used, how much spam each got, etc. So, it's better than just anecdotal evidence.
Anyway, I get about 100+ spams per day. A lot of them come to strangely-named addresses at my domain that I've never used. Example:
elephantitis@mydomain.com. I'd imagine that some of these came from email address harvesters who wanted to pad out their list which they sell to spammers.
Some of them come from ijits who work at a large company one of whose servers has the same name as my domain. For instance, they entered
fred@mydomain.com in some online spam form, when they meant
fred@mydomain.ibm.com As far as your idea is concerned, the abuse departments at earthlink, aol etc. probably already work that way. If they get enough complaints they decide to sue. It would also be open to abuse: if people didn't like someone, they could complain that the email they got from him was spam.
An interesting study would be to look into who keeps the spammers in business by buying their crap. If no one bought from spammers, the problem would solve itself.
To: Bobby777
Fastest way to get rid of spam is to tax it.
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posted on
04/24/2003 11:37:48 PM PDT
by
Busywhiskers
(Non entia multiplicandia sunt prater necessetatum. William Occam)
To: boycott
I don't like spam but I despise TELEPHONE SOLICITERS AT LEAST TEN FOLD MORE!!!! Has a telemarketer called you to sell you a penis enlargement treatment? Imagine, on the other hand, your 12 year-old daughter receiving such email, complete with photos.
To: Feldkurat_Katz
"Imagine, on the other hand, your 12 year-old daughter receiving such email, complete with photos."
Whoever these people are that do this they are the lowest scum on the face of the earth.
To: Feldkurat_Katz
"Has a telemarketer called you to sell you a penis enlargement treatment? Imagine, on the other hand, your 12 year-old daughter receiving such email, complete with photos. "
I agree that there is a lot of offensive spam. Let's just say that I don't get a lot of joy out of telephone solicitors or spam.
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posted on
04/25/2003 12:07:44 AM PDT
by
boycott
To: sasportas
"Imagine, on the other hand, your 12 year-old daughter receiving such email, complete with photos."
Whoever these people are that do this they are the lowest scum on the face of the earth. Agreed. And I get a lot of messages like that and they usually come with an innocent subject such as "You forgot your coat". Inside, there is a graphic image and a link. There is no way a spam filter can catch this.
The macho attitude summarized by "I can take care of spam myself" neglects the fact that spam has made email unfit and useless for children.
To: green team 1999
I'm so sick of the spam I get. Recently I've been getting a lot of spam for porno sites. No joke I just got an email tilted "young boys ---ked for the very first time." Someone has got to put a stop to this.
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:29:23 AM PDT
by
TBall
To: green team 1999
I say send all the spammers to Korea (the part where they say "you all", not the part where they say "Bahston") where SPAM is considered a delicacy!
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:34:45 AM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Subvert the conspiracy of inanimate objects!)
To: green team 1999
For the last week or so I have been replying to every spam email to remove me from the mailing list. Will this work and what about the spam that does not have a remove option?
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posted on
04/25/2003 9:07:10 AM PDT
by
TBall
To: TBall
For the last week or so I have been replying to every spam email to remove me from the mailing list. Will this work and what about the spam that does not have a remove option? In my experience, if they provide an unsubscribe option, it usually works. If they don't provide it, that's another story.
To: TBall
Don't. That simply gives spammers an indication there's a live human at the other end and you'll simply get more spam. Sign up for a
http://www.mailblocks.com account and keep the spam at bay. (And you can list your AOL, Hotmail, and Yahoo e-mail accounts with them.) I signed up for $9.95 the other day and I got 2 years extra service for FREE. That's not hard to beat.
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posted on
04/25/2003 9:12:55 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
( In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: TBall
Do not select the unsubscribe option unless it's somebody you've done business with (McAfee, ESPN.com, etc.) who decided to put you on a newsletter list.
Even if they do unsubscribe you, they'll just put you on a hundred other lists.
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