Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:27:07 +0100 (GMT/BST) From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [LIB] A special powful tool
My address has been misappropriated by the same sort of 'pondscum' of late, which I must say annoys me even more than the scum that keep filling my mailbox with garbage. I thought perhaps it might be because I try to be conscientious about reporting spammers to their ISPs and administrators of sites being used to relay spam - no doubt some of the reports end up in the hands of the spammers themselves, so I thought it might be an attempt at revenge by some of them. Most people seem to think setting up filters is the best way to handle spammers, but that seems a bit irresponsible to me, as having all the knowlegeable users hiding behind filters just leaves the nieve net users at the mercy of the crooks. I sometimes think it would be worth buying one of these email lists that are constantly being advertised (obviously with my name on the list, so that more people can spam me...), and using it to send details of the spammer to everyone on the list. Given that the premise of spam is that if you send a scam message to a large enough group of people, even a small percentage of suckers out there to make you some serious money - I think I could similarly count on the small percentage that are homicidal psychotics so that the spammer would make Osama Binladen look like a good insurance risk.... Plus it would be the perfect crime for whoever did it. Can you imagine the poor homicide detectice being handed the list of people with a motive... Regards, DigbyT neil barnes: > >You know, for things like this, I'm a big propponent of finding > >the culprit and publicly flogging them, then taking all of their > >computer equipment. > > > >sorry, this is one of my sore spots. > > Ah, I had something a little less extreme - maybe bastinado while suspended > in shark-infested water? > -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
