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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jarred White Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 4:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Has spam killed the Internet? For some reason I've recently started receiving 1-2 spam messages a week at my Gmail account. I NEVER used to see spam in that account. It's also usually professional stuff, so I think it must be third-party solicitations from groups I'm a member of, or sites like LinkedIn. I was pretty good at recognizing them and getting rid of them, until I recently created a false positive with my own actions... I saw an email from "Frodo Baggins" with the subject line, "Jo Opportunity." So I figure, "Oh how hilarious somebody knows I'm a nerd" and deleted it. Later I got a call from a friend asking if "I had seen any weird email messages." Once I put two and two together, I realized that he was being a smartass and had sent me an email (and BCCed a few others) trying to enlist my help to "take the One Ring to Mordor to cast into the fires of Mount Doom." It seemed like some spammer shit, and the poor spelling in the subject line didn't help. :P On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Karthik Poobal <[email protected]> wrote: Was your friend using Hotmail? :) For me, it's a non issue. Once I switched to google apps I probably see couple of spam messages a month and even that I delete without thinking too much about it. Now that I think about it, I get more spam in my snail mail box every Thursday than in my email box. At least with email I can do something to stop spam in my inbox. I'd like to cancel my mail(snail) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hox-ni8geIw Fax spam? We still get them in our office. As an individual, it does not make any sense to run your own email server any more. Karthik Poobalasubramanian Louisiana Board of Regents [email protected] [email protected] 225.341.5855 skype: poobal On 6/4/10 9:34 AM, Dustin Puryear wrote: > A philosophical question.. > > I recently sent someone I know an email about catching up and got busy > afterwards and so didn't respond very promptly, and then got the following: > > ... > > Automated form touch letters. Nice, Dustin. > > I'm spam listing your domain to this address. > > You can contact me via another technology, if you actually want to interact. > > ... > > It took me a few days to get what he meant, and now that I do I wonder > if spam has really made Internet users this jaded? More broadly put, has > spam really killed email? > > --- > > Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/ > > Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On > > Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies > > Download our free ebook "Best Practices for Linux and UNIX Servers" > > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- "The world's my oyster, a hotel room's my prison cell..."
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