 | | Spam = Jail Time! Woah. "Arrests" 'Tis not a good day to be a spammer. I have a feeling Kilingspam is going to be elated at this news.  | |
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 |  WildGodGod Is DeadPremium
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NYC |  Re: Spam = Jail Time!
Im very happy after reading this article.
These ppl were not arrested simply for sending spam. They were involved in scamming people out of money and they deserve everything they get.
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| | | | Re: Spam = Jail Time! Wildxgod, I'm tending to side with your view (and hello again). I think the part that we differed on before was our definition of spam (that is to say I think we were confused on each other's definition). I agree that deceptive spam where the spammer hides their true identity and offers no valid product should be eliminated. | |
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| | | WildGodGod Is DeadPremium
join:2002-01-30
NYC | Re: Spam = Jail Time! then we finally agree.
but even with legal commercial email i feel there should be a way to opt out.
hey some ppl dont mind advertisment in their emails but some of us do so i at least want that option.
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| I dislike spam advertizing as much as anyone. Yet, any good free email client/program is easily configurable to stop 99% of spam (eg. incredimail.com and some isps). When is the FTC to concentrate on "deceptive telco practices" (called "slamming" at FTC.gov)? (that defraud Americans out of millions more than email advertizers!)
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I personally will always use filters. ISPs, the government, and filtering services (Brightmail and other) can't stop it all. However, (as much as I hate to admit it) right now this looks like a positive step.
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said by ballszzee:
I dislike spam advertizing as much as anyone. Yet, any good free email client/program is easily configurable to stop 99% of spam (eg. incredimail.com and some isps). [text was edited by author 2002-02-15 06:07:24]
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|  Ben CiscoEmbrace IntellectPremium
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Wormhole | I say:
1. Great!
2. Screw opt-out; make the lusers use opt-IN!
3. Hope the rest of the lusers are reading...
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| | PhantomSpammer Hmmm now I can target spammers with my spam mail on how my new process can protect them from FTC and they can keep on spamming!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will make millions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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I want my personal email address of the past 10 years to be the same for the next 10 years. Or the next 50 years.
Riddle me that, Congress. | |
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| WildGodGod Is DeadPremium
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NYC | Why should we have to go through the trouble of having a backup?
Let these spammers serve some time for any illegal activities they engage in.
We shouldnt have to compromise. Most spam is in some form a scam or deceptive and should be dealt with by legal authorities.
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| | | Backup plan? I just let all potential spammers have my hotmail/yahoo addresses. Spam that may show at personal addresses are put in the poop shute with 2 mouse clicks (blocked and returned to sender). | |
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| | My wet dream come true!
Kilingspam is doing the Happy Dance!!!
Finally a real message will be sent to this jerks that spam thousands, hijack open relays, and rip off unsuspecting web newbies! | |
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 ArchAngel21xWaiting For iPhone 5Premium
join:2001-10-28
Lincoln, NE | Yeah, it is all good until Just wait till this spam crap comes in from another country that is not exactly on good terms with us. Then what are you going to do about it?
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Des Moines, IA | May not stop, maybe slow spam down While I don't think that it will stop all spam. I do think it will slow it down. Then every Tom, Dick, and Harry won't be flooding mail boxes in hopes of making a quick million in a week. That will leave just the professional spammers to go after. At least some of the spam from the pros are amusing. | |
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join:2000-10-21
Cleveland, OH | Aol may lose a few million people now If thats what there going to do send the wagons over to aol,web tv,hotmail.I can't tell you how much crap i get from them a-holes on those isp's."dude you won a million dollers just give me your credit card".Boy the cells will be filling up with spammers(thats a good thing tho:)) | |
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I just set up my alternate email addresses on my new comcast account, and have yet to even use them. I'm getting SPAM on them!
What really ticks me off is that I know a guy who quit his job and sells spam-ware full time. I have a mind to forward every piece of spam I get to him. Check out www.arkysoft.com if you don't believe me.
He even promotes "relay sniper" as a program to help people find and close open SMTP relays in order to fight spam. What a load.
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| | There's a dark side Net anonymity would be made illegal by the laws many here so gleefully endorse.
Be careful what you wish for, | |
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| | I've been saying it for years Washington state had the right idea - give us hardcore anti-spam types the legal right to haul spammers before a magistrate and demand payment for spewing into our mailboxes. If that bill became national law, I think spam would all but disappear.
Granted, most spammers don't have much in the way of money, but hell, even if all they have is a 286, you know they have that. Heh. I'd start mounting PC's and Mac's on the wall as trophies 
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