Spamming

[Darkfire001]

WHat are your guys/gals feelings on the newest wave of Unsolicited Mailings?

Are the just people trying to make honest livings or companies trying to make a quick buck?

Personally I think they are all bad people, since they are trying to use an interesting communication tool to conduct illegal activies. I say illegal since I have now even felt the brunt of spam. My own server is almost overloaded with exim dealing with huge spam attacks and the slowdowns are unbearbale

 

[jstep]

well, talk to rj about the domain he recently acquired

antispamtalk.com


lets see if he develops it

 

[Anthony]

Spam is bad. But we already knew that.

 

[Professer]

Re: Spamming

Originally posted by Darkfire001
WHat are your guys/gals feelings on the newest wave of Unsolicited Mailings?

Are the just people trying to make honest livings or companies trying to make a quick buck?

I don't find anything "honest" about SPAM advertisements. They depend on discovering new ways of getting by the SPAM filters to make their way to vulnerable inboxes.

I'm surprised that they work at all. Who actually would buy Viagra from an unknown source through an email advertisement?

 

[painperdu]

Yeah, spammers are crude.

They waste community resources for self-interests. They send out hundreds of thousands of emails and actually a very small percentage respond. They've essentially killed the openess of the email system.

The good news is that these people represent only a small fraction of humanity.

The bad news is that it only takes a small fraction of humanity to cause trouble for the rest.

 

[Professer]

Damn, my junior high school math teacher was right. If you don't learn to take care of the small fractions, they will come back to haunt you! :tri:

 

[painperdu]

Re: Re: Spamming

Originally posted by Professer
I don't find anything "honest" about SPAM advertisements. They depend on discovering new ways of getting by the SPAM filters to make their way to vulnerable inboxes.

I'm surprised that they work at all. Who actually would buy Viagra from an unknown source through an email advertisement?

I was thinking about this this morning as I was power-deleting a couple hundred spam.

Do people really respond to "c!!al!s" or vgr@" . . .

or

"Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Tom Maguba from the repulic of . . ."

 

[RJ]

All it takes is for one knucklehead out of 10,000 to buy from the spammer to make him want to keep spamming. That's why you should never, ever patronize a company that's spamming regardless of how interesting the offer might sound. There's nothing that you can get from a spam that you can't find on the internet elsewhere.

IMHO, Spam is the #1 problem on the Internet today. I encourage everyone who's had enough of it to join www.cauce.org and see what you can do to get it stopped.

 

[Spirited]

Exactly, because it is so easy and cheap to mass spam email, it doesn't matter how small a proportion respond as long as someone does, it was worth it for them.

I have exclusive filters on my email, that is, if I haven't said it can come in, it can't. Unfortunatly I loose some genuine mail that way.

 

[netPH]

i like to eat spam

 

[Anthony]

Originally posted by -RJ-
All it takes is for one knucklehead out of 10,000 to buy from the spammer to make him want to keep spamming. That's why you should never, ever patronize a company that's spamming regardless of how interesting the offer might sound. There's nothing that you can get from a spam that you can't find on the internet elsewhere.

IMHO, Spam is the #1 problem on the Internet today. I encourage everyone who's had enough of it to join www.cauce.org and see what you can do to get it stopped.

Someone has better tell BillInChina that... see his Sitepal spam offer thread...

 

[Darkfire001]

Well, I wonder who ALL THE COMPANIES ARE that pay to have these spam mails sent out.

 

[Grrilla]

My guess is that it is the the new user that keeps SPAM rolling. As in "Gee, this is so cool. Look at all the deals you can get on the internet, and how convenient." -or- "OMG! I've got to protect myself. fI need to get this, and that , and oh yes, something to stop SPAM, whatever that is." I love the irony of a SPAM that sells an anti-SPAM utility.

Mailwasher, or other similar progs that allow checking, blacklisting and bouncing at the server level have done wonders for me. For the oddball acct that continues getting alot of SPAM, I just change addresses.