On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 02:23:01 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote: >> And I think your assumptions about pornography are also mistaken. >> I hardly ever get spam promoting porn sites. Mostly it's just >> Nigerian generals and drug offers. I used to get the free cable >> tv device offer all the time, but that seems to have disappeared.
>> Once you get on a certain kind of spam list as being possibly >> interested in certain kinds of offers then you will get lots of >> mail that's very much the same kind of thing. It's somewhat >> targeted that way. >> Sam Ewalt > I remember that cable TV descrambler spam from newsgroups some time ago, message > said it was legal, but I haven't seen any spams recently on that subject. I am still getting some spams about the illegal cable TV descambler. According to my understanding of the law, it is legal for someone to sell you some technical plans on how to make an illegal cable TV descrambler but it is illegal for you to make one and/or to possess one. The same applies for destructive devices and other illegal weapons. You may legally publish and sell the plans on how to build them but it is illegal to make them and/or possess them. In any case it illegal to spam people. > I used to get a lot of spams promoting a chain-letter pyramid scheme, where the > recipient is supposed to send $5 to each of 5 snail-mail addresses to order 5 > reports on how to send bulk email legally and how to make big money on the > Internet. It is illegal to send unsolicited bulk email. Period. Also it is illegal to promote a chain letter scam through the US Postal Service. All chain letters are frauds and scams by legal definition. > Now that type of spam is infrequent. Maybe they ran out of suckers? > I get a lot of Korean spams, where in most cases, I don't know what they're > selling, but some of those appear to be sexy. I get some Chinese spams that I > can't read, and some of those come through [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nigeria > spam has been increasing in frequency, and some of those also come through > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: not only generals, but oil businessmen too. I get a > fair amount of porno spams, even some supposedly involving mothers and sons, > fathers and daughters, brothers and sisters, etc. I consider the porn scams and the viagra spams and the virile member enlargement spams and the breast enlargement spams as highly insulting because the spammer is making the preposterous assumption that his target audience suffers from a sicko psychological complex about about some kind of imagined sexual inadequacy. The few and unusual people who actually do suffer from such imaginary hangups and problems need help from professional counselors. There is no way a common low-life spammer can help them. > What's really annoying is getting the same spam multiple times, especially when > it's a big spam, like that 148 KB get-rich-quick spam with a .doc attachment, > presumably MS-Word. I didn't even bother to decode the base64. > Steve Ackman, you mentioned interbusiness.it as a source of spam. From the spam > I get, I don't remember that domain. Not to say I never received anything from > that domain, but it is certainly not a substantial source of the spam that comes > my way. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
