Do you all remember two SPAM a while ago, one about "Charly" and one for some lame computer store in Orem? Remember how terribly similar they were? It turns out the similarity was that they both met almost all of the requirements for Utah's SPAM laws. All of them except the requirement to give a physical address for the origin. In that case the origin was the founder of the ultra-lame SingleSaints.com. I don't recall his name at the moment, and that would be rude anyway.
Anyway, I noticed the similarity and traced it back to SingleSaints. From there I traced it back to the founder, who happened to be in the ultra-public LDAP server (alumni) so I called his Mom and got his address in Orem. Then I dug up some dirt on him. You know, psychological problems, near-expulsion involving the honor-code office, mission to brazil (I think), BA in Film, brief stay in CS early on. Then I sent all this info to Brent Harker (BYU's SPAM authority) who forwarded me to the appropriate people who called this jerk and told him off and revoked what few privileges alumni have.
I haven't seen a SPAM from him since.
All true, and only about 30 minutes of digging. And you thought Dr Google was just your source for HOWTOs and drivers for esoteric hardware.
-- Andrew Jorgensen
Jacob Albretsen wrote:
Can you report him to BYU, would they do anything? I know they prefer to break everything else when fighting spam, it'd be nice to bust this guy.
On Thursday 19 June 2003 11:08 pm, Michael Halcrow wrote:
I got a kick out of this one:
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