Is it just me, or does anyone else ever get the strong urge to just forget being civilized for a moment, and go out of your way to make some spammer’s life miserable? Heck, I almost have more respect for phishers who are trying to steal your bank’s weblogin, because at least they’re direct thieves, with all the real-world risk when you steal something tangible. But spammers aren’t doing that: they’re just making your life miserable to either get more click-throughs, or to fool you into being dumb enough to buy something stupid and overpriced.
I suppose I like people who work for some actual, tangible thing, rather than those who just are slimy salesmen who try to insult your intelligence and fool you. But it’s just not worth it. Fighting back (well, other than installing your own spam-blocking software on email and blog accounts) just takes too much effort. Luckily, there are a good number of teams of anti-spammers out there with a plethora of products, both for domains and email content, and more. The great thing is that the anti-spammers are nearly always so much farther advanced technically and organizationally. Unfortunately they’re always on the defensive – well, most of them are.
Tags: spam, web
I went through a phase where I would work out the ip address spam was sent from, whois it, and complain to the provider. But I gave up. Most are zombie machine run by witless people who believed AOL when it said it would protect them and they could be as dumb as they liked.
The only way to do it is to have a locked down internet where you can easiy track back an IP address to a physical address and person, and, similarly, track down all interaction between that address and others. Just like in… oh yeah, China.
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Hi all
I’m new to this , but I guess I shall be spending quite a bit of time here as there seems to be so much going on! I’m hoping to make some new friends
Look forward to ‘meeting’ you all, John the Spammer
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