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Porn-related spam proves relentless
The Denver Post ^ | 12/22/02 | Jennifer Beauprez

Posted on 12/22/2002 3:19:12 PM PST by Drew68

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To: Poohbah
Okay, thanks. I'll look into that.
41 posted on 12/22/2002 4:45:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Actually, I think it's more like extortion. Someone buys a useful URL and threatens to make it into a porn site. Those who may want to use the URL must pay to keep the name clean.

This happened to a friend of mine who had a technical site for his compnay. A squatter waited for his registration to expire, had a bid waiting, then loaded it with porn and told him it would be $1,000 to get it back.

Fortunately, he was a stubborn Scot. The porn is still sitting on his old site, and it can rot there till Hell freezes over.

42 posted on 12/22/2002 4:46:51 PM PST by Gorzaloon
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To: Drango
We need Hate ACLU legislation.
43 posted on 12/22/2002 4:47:15 PM PST by gitmo
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To: cryptical
....I'm guessing that there'd be a lot of good techniques that we on the 'legit' side of the world can learn from how porn sites do things.

From what I could find out; the reason some of the pages come down so fast is that when you access a page they put into your computer a html file for the next page. It probably goes into temp internet files. That way when you click for the page it doesn't have to get it from the server it is already in your computer.

When you consider as a group they are getting more traffic than anyone else, and still deliver the pages there is something to be learned there for any website webmaster.

What they are doing is wrong but the way they are doing it is right. - Tom

44 posted on 12/22/2002 4:47:21 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Gorzaloon
No legitimate product has ever been sold with spam...

Seriously... What idiot would buy something from someone who will not let you know who they are, will not let you contact them by return e-mail, forges their identity to try to make you think you know them, and, if you have the know-how to see where the SPAM came from, normally sends their advertisements from Brazil, Asia, the Carribean or some other place where laws have no meaning. People buying from scum like this must be total idiots!!!

45 posted on 12/22/2002 4:48:22 PM PST by 69ConvertibleFirebird
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To: Senator Pardek
What am I doing wrong?

I don't know Mr. Pardek! Talk to the folks that get inundated :~D

I sortof think it is like something I heard about a sexually transmitted disease... - They said "We have pretty much isolated this as an STD. Of course, there are always a one or two nuns and preacher's wives that get it "innocently" somehow, and we just nod politely and smile", and we leave it at 99% just for them. ;~D

46 posted on 12/22/2002 4:49:51 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Drango
The infamous American Criminal Liberties Union at work again!
47 posted on 12/22/2002 4:50:44 PM PST by Paulus Invictus
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To: Drew68
On the computer screen, where he was playing video games, were pictures of naked women consorting with animals.

I play games, online and solo, all the time, and I have NEVER inadvertently found porn. And my filters are all set to minimum.
48 posted on 12/22/2002 4:53:09 PM PST by Xenalyte
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To: HairOfTheDog
Never once.

I have never once gotten a pornographic email.

If you had MSN you would get plenty.

49 posted on 12/22/2002 4:55:52 PM PST by gitmo
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To: Drew68
Between my ISP and Postini, all but a few porn spams are gone before they can even get to my computer, but one occasionally gets through.

I have a bigger problem with "funny" attachments sent by friends- much of the stuff isn't even humorous, but merely witless scatology. Having survived two elbow-bending years during Bennett House's (ISU) glory days, I once thought I had seen/heard enough "great moments in obscenity" to render me impervious to most anything.

Alas, I was unprepared for the internet.

50 posted on 12/22/2002 4:56:52 PM PST by niteowl77
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To: DoughtyOne
try
http://www.mailwasher.net/

It is free and does a good job. Allows you to see the mail in the box before you get it. Then you have the options of bouncing it back, deleting it, or banning the sender or any combination of those three or just leaving the options alone.

Then you can hit another button and bring down the mail to the computer.- Tom

51 posted on 12/22/2002 4:58:34 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: gitmo
Well, it is true that I use my broadband ISP email account for everything. They may filter out some spam.
52 posted on 12/22/2002 4:59:14 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: TLBSHOW
I forward all porno spam to uce@ftc.gov. They are supposed to be doing something about spam. Maybe we should all start forwarding them to Congress Critters. If their staffers complain enough to them maybe they will do something.
53 posted on 12/22/2002 5:00:49 PM PST by csmusaret
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To: Senator Pardek
Like you, I've never gotten a porn spam, and I get about 1 non-porn spam a month. What am I doing wrong?

And if you don't regularly get W32 Klez viruses sent to you, I have to conclude you lead a very conservative internet life. - Tom

54 posted on 12/22/2002 5:02:34 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Xenalyte
I have NEVER inadvertently found porn. And my filters are all set to minimum.

Which of the following are porn sites: www.atilla.com

www.atillathehun.com

www.mature.com

www.sanfransisco.com

www.whitehouse.com

www.mature.com

www.carpet.com

www.thehun.com

You can't tell by the URL. I accidently hit one of these sites and work and couldn't stop the windows from popping up. I finally unplugged the PC. My boss was out of the office. I met her at the door to tell her what had happened. But someone could get into real trouble that way.

55 posted on 12/22/2002 5:10:00 PM PST by gitmo
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To: Drew68
39 billion recipients

Either they're emailing Mars, or they've found away to email the future.

Could someone email me the winning lotto numbers for next week, please? Thanks.

56 posted on 12/22/2002 5:10:00 PM PST by DAnconia55
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To: Drew68
You would think someone could create software to reverse the tracking on such unwanted filth and send an e-mail nuke to destroy the hard drive of the offending spammer's server.

Lots of fun to think about, huh?

57 posted on 12/22/2002 5:12:13 PM PST by Wondervixen
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To: Drew68
People need to realize that internet access is so cheap because porn providers are footing the bill. Porn funds the internet. It is similar to the airline industry where business travellers that pay full price allow mom and pop to fly on the cheap.
58 posted on 12/22/2002 5:12:28 PM PST by LetsRok
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To: Gorzaloon
No legitimate product has ever been sold with spam, nor would any ever be, because of the spam reputation.

Patently untrue.

And I should know :)

59 posted on 12/22/2002 5:13:49 PM PST by DAnconia55
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To: Drew68; All
Mailwasher... download it. Use it. Love it.


60 posted on 12/22/2002 5:14:19 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
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