&*%$*! Spammers
I hate spam and those who would send it off to us. Hate is a strong word, but I feel that it is justified after the most recent barrage. This spam wasn't sent to me directly, but whoever sent it out to many, many AOL subscribers decided that putting return e-mail addresses with one of my domains would really help them sell more software to find those long, lost people. Well as far as I can tell so far, all it has ended up doing is returning a bunch of mail from dead AOL addresses - to ME. I had no problem deleting all the mails, but I just know that they'll keep coming. I can block emails being returned to specific addresses, but they used many different, random addresses ("lk042ck70812" is one real example) so that would be v. difficult. I am not happy.
Also, to be clear, I am not selling any "SOFTWARE" that will help anyone "locate Missing Persons, find Lost Relatives, obtain Addresses and Phone Numbers of old school friends, even Skip Trace Dead Beat Spouses."
March 12, 2003 12:02 PM
Comments (8)
03/12: Bill said:
If anyone is interested, I hacked their wacky URL and came up with the following: (http://www.desk7.bag.gs/csrine.htm). They have cookies and a ton of wierd javascript. Also, they ask for your credit card without security. Basically, it is really sketchy!
03/12: stacy said:
Spam does suck. I get at least 40 pieces a day. Mostly regarding penis enlargement.
03/12: k-tin said:
stacy? you mean the world doesn't know that you don't want your penis enlarged? how can that be?
03/13: Trevor said:
This:
http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
is something that gives me hope. It's a long read, if you don't care about spam, but it's really interesting and good.
03/13: Trevor said:
The best part is, it's totally a Photoshopped box, even. It doesn't even EXIST in BOX form!
03/13: Trevor said:
I'll skip trace YOU!
03/13: Trevor said:
Ooh! Mozilla 1.3 has the Bayesian filtering!
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/spam.html
03/13: Bill said:
Agreed, Bayesian filtering is an awesome idea. I would like to try it sometime.
I think the thing that cheesed me the most in this recent barrage is the use of *my domain* as if I were the one sending the spam!