LOL... I'm just sitting here laughing out loud Peter...

Spam sucks... that's probably all that needs to be said.  I don't know
why I assumed you were in the States... that was dumb.

Your idea of plastering their server with "responses" sure is
tempting... that'd be easy to script, wouldn't it?  (GRIN)

Nate

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 10:21, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Nate Duehr wrote:
>
> *>On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 05:07, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> *>> Sorry to noise the list but I've been getting spam from something that
> *>> calls itself axis-of-evil@gwbush.com. It is filthy political spam and I'm
> *>> fed up with it. Since I've complained before I seem to have been
> *>> resubscribed ?! Question: has anyone else seen filth from this source ?
> *>
> *>LOL!  That's a good fake address... funny!  At least that spammer has a
> *>good sense of humor.  GW rehashing the nickname of the "bad guys"
>
> I'm not sure you would laugh if you would read the stuff they write.
>
> *>E-mail ender addresses are very easy to fake.  Would you like some
> *>e-mail from me that says it's from president@whitehouse.gov ?  (GRIN)
>
> It is not so easy to fake it around here. In this part of the world
> insecure ISPs are mostly down ...
>
> *>Generically, replying to spam addresses that say "click here to take me
> *>off the list" or hitting reply to it just guarantees to the spammer that
> *>a real live human being is on the other end of the e-mail address in
> *>their list, and the spam just gets worse.
>
> I'll keep this in mind. Since I use Unix I could send them say 200,000
> emails saying please unsubscribe me, each quoting the full message but
> with enough random variation that filters won't stop it. Do you think that
> this would help ? ;-)
>
> *>more spammers will show up next year.
>
> Raid Max was invented for a reason ;-)
>
> *>The best chance you have against spam right now is to install good
> *>quality spam blocking software (SpamAssassin on a Unix mail server comes
>
> I have spam filters everywhere. Th messages are stopped by the filter but
> this is a newsletter kind of thing, it comes weekly or something like
> that.
>
> *>let alone good anti-spam software.  This is where running your own
> *>server really starts to show major benefits... you know how your
> *>anti-virus, anti-spam, and anti-annoying-person filters are set up.
> *>(And you can put *me* in your annoying-person filter list!  hahaha...)
>
> Done. Ha.
>
> *>The only real solution is serious laws (eventually recognized
> *>Internationally) with teeth in them against the STEALING of resources
> *>that Unsolicited Bulk Commercial E-mail really is.  Write your local
> *>politicians and CongressCritters if you're in the U.S.  Tell them that
> *>you're tired of others using what you paid for... your server, your
> *>bandwidth, your monitor, your eyeballs... heh... well, I wear glasses...
>
> Can we skip this and just spray them if we're not in the US ? Please ? I
> get about 20% spam and 80% of it is stopped at the expen$ive ISP. If I'll
> change ISP I'll get it all.
>
> Peter
>
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