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Comments on news posted 2003-05-22 19:04:57: As Congress convenes to figure out how to solve the spam dilemma, a number of attendees, including one prolific spammer, give their opinions on what should be done. ..
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 magstan1
join:2001-11-09
Collinsville, OK | He musta got me Checked my mail today, had 356 messages (all spam). I wonder how many came from this guy? (I use Yahoo). And still on dial up. | |
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Varangian
join:2002-12-08
Collinsville, IL
|  Use a SPAM MAGNET
the sub accounts available with commercial services are ideal.
free email addresses will do, but these often prompt for an email address, which will itself generate spam.
Then every time someone with no excuse to ask for an email address asks, give them the spam magnet.
Free email addresses can be left to fill with spam and die on the vine .
Sub Accounts can be routinely cancelled and replaced with a fresh magnet as they fill. | |
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Neophyte101
All Your E-Mail Are Belong To Us
join:2002-01-02
Deep River, CT | No Pussy Ronald The guy can't get any pussy so he has to send millions of junk e-mails every day. | |
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joetaxpayer
I'M Here Till Thursday
join:2001-09-07
Sudbury, MA
 ·Comcast
·Comcast Formerly ..
| Looking for a Solution in this age of keys, encryption, etc, I can see a simple solution. I give a friend my email address, it also has a 'key'. The key has a security level just like the encryption used for online banking. Same goes for signing up at a business or any mailing list. If I get an email that uses the key I generated for 'Best Buy's mailer, but it's clear that it was passed on to a spammer, I kill the key and stop shopping with Best Buy.
The comparisons to junk mail are indeed flawed since spam costs the sender very little if anything.
I'd like congress to compare it to phone soliciting. If 10,000 marketeers got your home number, and 100 called per night, you know there'd be an uproar, and you'd pay to block unidentified callers.
As far as the junk mail, when they send a business reply envelope, I stuff their junk in it along with any other trash I have from the day's mail, and let them pay to get it back. If everyone would do this, the mail would slow down a bit cause the cost just jumped. My two cents.
JOE | |
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revrus
join:2002-07-14
Chillicothe, OH
 ·SkyWay
 ·Alltel Axess
| Irritation Made a 10 digit then @xxy.com address for my daughter to get email from family in other parts of the country. Was random character address.
Two days later checked to make sure operational d/t problems with another address had 22 meg of pure spam.
Thats one I'd like to know how they did it.
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If you are worrying about typing and spelling errors then the message is not important | |
| jrehm
join:2002-04-28
Wappingers Falls, NY | Things will get worse!
Like they ever came up with a good idea! | |
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