6 Mar
2002
6 Mar
'02
2:58 p.m.
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7 Mar
7 Mar
1:55 a.m.
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 calmanagement(a)earthlink.net wrote:
This is NOT SPAM - You have received this e-mail
because at one time or
another you requested information from us regarding international trade
Ok, since this is NOT SPAM, who signed up the list to receive spam from
Itrade?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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10:37 a.m.
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 calmanagement(a)earthlink.net wrote:
> This is NOT SPAM - You have received this e-mail because at one time or
> another you requested information from us regarding international trade
Umm, that post looked like a duck & quacked like a duck.... I don't
_care_ if they said it wasn't a duck.
Doc
10:56 a.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 calmanagement(a)earthlink.net wrote:
Yeah, what a coincidence. Just after my comments on hypocritical
hand-waving re the Great Firewall of China, to Tapley, earlier today.
Maybe some shit-disturber with a warped sense of "humor"? Maybe the same
joker who has Earthlink, otherwise one of the better big ISP's,
inconvenience their customers by blocking port 25 outbound and sending
them nastygrams accusing them of running one of those wicked open relays
if they attempt to send mail to an Earthlink address from their own mail
server on an Earthlink dialup. (Not a problem if you come from outside
or bypass the MX servers and use an internal corporate relay like
calmanagement here has done.)
No, I don't spam, of course not. There are people dumb enough of course
not to know yet that spamming is moronic and counterproductive as a
business practice, and there will be until everyone has been on the net
for some time, and there are also people who think it's a clever way to
annoy people. Same kind of people who get off on cyber, prolly. Why
reward wankers like them? I just ignore what little can't be filtered
out (without stomping on legitimate mail, dammit, I once lost out on a
killer deal on pallet load of Pentium II Overdrive upgrades because the
guy's ISP was using DUL blocking) and I heartily recommend this approach
to anyone.
jbdigriz
This is NOT SPAM - You have received this e-mail
because at one time or
another you requested information from us regarding international trade
Ok, since this is NOT SPAM, who signed up the list to receive spam from
Itrade?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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1:40 p.m.
New subject: Defeating SPAM (Was ADV: International Trade)
James B. DiGriz wrote:
No, I don't spam, of course not. There are people
dumb enough of course
not to know yet that spamming is moronic and counterproductive as a
business practice, and there will be until everyone has been on the net
for some time, and there are also people who think it's a clever way to
annoy people.
Jerome Fine replies:
I will shortly be shifting to my "newer" system and changing ISP at the
same time, so a change of e-mail address is necessary. My new address
will be <jhfinepw4z(a)compsys.to> (just in case anyone is interested).
The four characters preceding the 'at' will be chosen at random and
changed whenever I become annoyed enough with the volume of spam.
While any e-mail address I use in the future will be active and can be
replied to at the time, if anyone in the future wants to reply or contact
me after the four characters preceding the 'at' have been retired, they
can replace them with the four digits of the current year. I have not
finalized this as yet, so if anyone can see a flaw in this arrangement,
please advise. I calculated the number of different combinations of
four random alphanumeric characters at over a million (36 ** 4).
In case anyone is wondering, I will be using Windows 98 second
edition with Netscape V4.78 and with multiple user ids activated.
While it took a couple of days to figure out, I will have ONLY ONE
set of mail files and one set of newsgroup files. I will still need a
different set of settings files for each user id - I have not figured that
part out as yet - it is probably either impossible or not worth the
extra effort.
Just an observation. If most people adopted a similar method,
only a tiny fraction of spam would ever get delivered to those
individuals. I realize that it will be a bit inconvenient when I
switch e-mail addresses, but the default semi-permanent
e-mail address will hopefully take care of that.
Based on all the comments I have seen about spam, I hope that
the above will be of interest.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
2:47 p.m.
New subject: Defeating SPAM (Was ADV: International Trade)
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Jerome Fine wrote:
Just an observation. If most people adopted a similar
method, only a
tiny fraction of spam would ever get delivered to those individuals.
I realize that it will be a bit inconvenient when I switch e-mail
addresses, but the default semi-permanent e-mail address will
hopefully take care of that.
Or you could chase those spammers around with a sharp stick. That has got
to be my next favorite hobby after classic computers :)
Seriously though, emailing a spammer's admin(s) or their upstream provider
often takes care of the problem.
-Toth
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