Re: AOL and spam (way OFFTOPIC)
M.C. Bezemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Just in case you didn't yet notice, it seems that the spam mail on the debian-user list is coming from only ONE sender. Well, all the spam that came from aol. I notice that no one seems at all upset about the obviously commercial spam (even to me, a non-chinese speaker [1]) sent from netvigator.com by way of hkstar.com, in chinese. (this seems especially odd as that spammer very obviously tried to hide his/her identity) Does spam only offend if it is legible by the recipient? Is the real offense in spam not the wasting of disk space (for truly, these aol spams are really very short things, individually) but the forcing of commercial thoughts into the heads of the recipient. But I'm seriously digressing now, and not really qualified to do this sort of analysis. [1] Though I do have a mail-reader that lets me read the big5 chinese encoding, and so lets me pick out the portions that aren't written in chinese characters. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AOL and spam (way OFFTOPIC)
M.C. Bezemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Just in case you didn't yet notice, it seems that the spam mail on the debian-user list is coming from only ONE sender. Well, all the spam that came from aol. I notice that no one seems at all upset about the obviously commercial spam (even to me, a non-chinese speaker [1]) sent from netvigator.com by way of hkstar.com, in chinese. (this seems especially odd as that spammer very obviously tried to hide his/her identity) Does spam only offend if it is legible by the recipient? Is the real offense in spam not the wasting of disk space (for truly, these aol spams are really very short things, individually) but the forcing of commercial thoughts into the heads of the recipient. No, it's just that I assumed it was someone trying to get help in chinese ;-). I am sure most other people skipped the message on the same grounds. The offense of spam is that if you don't stop it in time, your bandwidth and hd space *will* be wasted. The latest stats show that 80% ( i might be a little off on this) of usenet traffic is spam and spam cancels. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
