Joost Kooij wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > > Talking of spam - Have you folks ever wondered how they never want to > > > sell anything that is worth buying? All the spam that I have got seem > > > to belong to one of the following categories - > > > > > > * Make money fast (rehash of the old pyramid scheme) > > > * Advertise your site in a gazillion search engine for pennies > > > * Scantily clad persons are waiting for me to visit their pages. > > > * 10,000 "fresh" email addresses are available for 19.95 (this should be > > > the spam equivalent of recursion ;-) > You forgot one type: Some months ago, after posting to this list, a > junkmailer urged me several times to accept Jesus Christ as my personal > saviour. Well, as long as they don't e-mail bibles along with it this kind > of spam is probably the most bearable.
Perhaps we have a real Debian Jock spammer. (S)He seems to know that
the Debian distribution contains the King James version of the text. ;-)
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> I'm very curious about other methods of fighting back. What does abuse.net
> do for example?
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I have been using the net for more almost 4 years now and this kind of
spam seems to have started fairly recently (about a year back). The
net.pests of yesteryears were an entirely different species mainly
menacing usenet. Do others around here remember net.history the same
way I do?
Sudhakar
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"Reverend, I think I am coveting my own wife." -- Ned Flanders
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