In a lovely piece of cyber-irony, this post did not go to my normal cfaussie folder but into my spam filter's Possible Spam folder.
Mildly amusing Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad Renando Sent: Friday, 20 May 2005 11:17 AM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Warning - Sys-Con.com "renewals" While we're off-topic... Spam is a sore spot for me. I ran a syndicated radio program for awhile and was signed up to a few hundred lists and newsgroups to keep up on the artists in my catalog (while you may not think it, the underground Christian industrial / goth / sub-culture music scene is pretty active). By the time I gave it up, I was getting over 1000 emails per day, 75% of them spam. The problem was that my spam filters couldn't keep up, as many of the newsletters and mass mailing from the groups and artists were designated as spam. At one time, I ignorantly tried to unsubscribe to everything, which jacked the spam up several percentage points. An idea I was toying with was starting a "snuff site". A site at something like killspam.com where it would be a simple list, something like: Sig: SpamKing Offence: 1.5 million unsolicited emails per day Off-line: 12 January, 2004 Then show a graphic picture of some dude with a bullet through the head slumped over the keyboard, as well as the names and addresses of known active spammers, both in and out of the US, encouraging others to follow through. Apart from the moral issues, I am confident that such a site would result in 25 to life, if not the chair, so I just quit rather than change my email and start over. Wasting 2 hours per day deleting spam tends to get one pretty frustrated to the point of violence. Then there's the true story of the guy who had just had his testicles removed as a result of cancer who sent death threats to the spammer who kept sending the Viagra offers. Chad who finds comfort in his unfulfilled violent tendencies On 5/20/05, Tim McAuliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > LOL > > The name of the query is enough, let alone the SQL. > > > > did you ever contact them about the code ? > > if so what did they say ? > > Sure did. First I showed it to Ben Forta, because he's done a lot of > writing for them. Ben's only comment was "Hmm..."! He put me in touch with > a guy at Sys-Con called Robert Diamond, who assured me that the email was > only being gathered into a master list of names to be removed. I still > regularly receive emails from Sys-Con so make of that what you will. > > I filled out a CAN-SPAM complaint with the FCC in the US and it seems they > did nothing, so I just blacklisted everything from Sys-Con. Now they've > started sending me postal mail, but at least it costs them 80c a letter! > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ NOTICE: Medical and scientific information provided in print and electronically by Sydney IVF might not be relevant to your own circumstances and should always be discussed with your own doctor before you act on it. This communication is confidential and may contain copyright or otherwise protected information of Sydney IVF Limited or a third party. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please immediately let us know by reply email or telephone us on +61 2 9221 5964, delete the communication and destroy all copies. --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
