Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam

[STEED]

It's 30 years today of the first spam email, crud. :damn:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/01/spam_30/


I like to shoot the bloody lot of them then bring them back to life and shoot them again. ;)

[Brag]

It's 30 years today of the first spam email, crud. :damn:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/01/spam_30/


I like to shoot the bloody lot of them then bring them back to life and shoot them again. ;)

A cry in the wilderness by one of our top spamahoochies. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[STEED]

It's 30 years today of the first spam email, crud. :damn:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/01/spam_30/


I like to shoot the bloody lot of them then bring them back to life and shoot them again. ;)

A cry in the wilderness by one of our top spamahoochies. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Email brag. :damn:

Still time to cancel your book you know. ;)

[STEED]

These days I have more phone-spam than email-spam, it's way more annoying but that sh!t is legal :damn:

We have that problem here, call centres ringing you up about this and that. Most of them are now outside the UK and you get some Indian calling you with a East end accent 20 to 50 times a day. Fortunately we got the TPS Telephone Preference Service which tells this lot we don't want there calls, since joining we only get the odd one here and there.

[nikimcbee]

These days I have more phone-spam than email-spam, it's way more annoying but that sh!t is legal :damn:

We have that problem here, call centres ringing you up about this and that. Most of them are now outside the UK and you get some Indian calling you with a East end accent 20 to 50 times a day. Fortunately we got the TPS Telephone Preference Service which tells this lot we don't want there calls, since joining we only get the odd one here and there.

I have so much fun with the Indian telemarketers! I just switch to Russian...fun ensues:up:

[Jimbuna]

These days I have more phone-spam than email-spam, it's way more annoying but that sh!t is legal :damn:

We have that problem here, call centres ringing you up about this and that. Most of them are now outside the UK and you get some Indian calling you with a East end accent 20 to 50 times a day. Fortunately we got the TPS Telephone Preference Service which tells this lot we don't want there calls, since joining we only get the odd one here and there.

I have so much fun with the Indian telemarketers! I just switch to Russian...fun ensues:up:

LMAO :rotfl:

[nikimcbee]

These days I have more phone-spam than email-spam, it's way more annoying but that sh!t is legal :damn:

We have that problem here, call centres ringing you up about this and that. Most of them are now outside the UK and you get some Indian calling you with a East end accent 20 to 50 times a day. Fortunately we got the TPS Telephone Preference Service which tells this lot we don't want there calls, since joining we only get the odd one here and there.

I have so much fun with the Indian telemarketers! I just switch to Russian...fun ensues:up:

LMAO :rotfl:

...or I ask if they have a Bulgarian translator.:up:

[Rhodes]

So who's going to post the link for the Monty Python clip?

[STEED]

So who's going to post the link for the Monty Python clip?

Not me. :nope:

Sailor Steve got a court order out to prevent me from doing such a thing. :arrgh!:

[antikristuseke]

Since when have court orders stoped Python? (http://youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE)

[Wolfehunter]

:rotfl: Your guys are cracked. Spam jezus....:lol:

[Sailor Steve]

Email brag. :damn:

Still time to cancel your book you know. ;)
That threat will only work so many times. Then one day Jimbuna will post a link to a news article: "Local man found dead with copy of book shoved down throat! Authorities baffled; suspect government conspiracy."


Originally Posted by Rhodes
So who's going to post the link for the Monty Python clip?


Not me. :nope:

Sailor Steve got a court order out to prevent me from doing such a thing. :arrgh!:
Liar liar pants on fire! You know I love links to Python. It's when you start thinking you're talented enough to do the whole sketch yourself that I start whining.:rotfl:

[Platapus]

" but a recent survey conducted by Sophos revealed that 11 per cent of people admit to having bought goods in response to spam messages."

And this ladies and gentlemen is the problem. Considering that sending E-mail spam, when compared to other advertising venues is practically cost-less, having an 11 percent response rate makes spam a most viable venue indeed.

The solution is in the hands of the people, not the government. Clearly 11 percent seemed accept spam as an acceptable form of advertisement. All it would take to remove spam would be a commitment by the people not to buy anything from spam adverts.

Myself, I am so anti-spam that if I ever got a piece of spam advertising the exact product I was looking for at the best price I still would not buy from the advertiser. I will gladly pay more money for the same product if it did not rely on spam adverts.

I would love to find the corporate address of the advertisers and send them a letter "I was considering buying from your company as you were selling exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately, since you choose to use spam, I brought from your competitor."

On one of my E-mail accounts I get about 70 E-mails a day (only a few people have my address). Of those 70, perhaps 2 are legit.

I wish I could tell these advertisers that I am not looking for a second mortgage in order to finance my penis enhancement so I can watch porn of underage girls and farm animals. :nope:

[STEED]

Email brag. :damn:

Still time to cancel your book you know. ;)
That threat will only work so many times. Then one day Jimbuna will post a link to a news article: "Local man found dead with copy of book shoved down throat! Authorities baffled; suspect government conspiracy."

What threat? :shifty: :lol:


Originally Posted by Rhodes So who's going to post the link for the Monty Python clip?


Not me. :nope:

Sailor Steve got a court order out to prevent me from doing such a thing. :arrgh!:

Liar liar pants on fire! You know I love links to Python. It's when you start thinking you're talented enough to do the whole sketch yourself that I start whining.:rotfl:


I got the court order in front of me and it states any links posted by me about the spam sketch Steve will fly across the pond and give me a big wet sloppy full blown kiss on the lips, no thank you. :smug:

[Brag]

Email brag. :damn:

Still time to cancel your book you know. ;)
That threat will only work so many times. Then one day Jimbuna will post a link to a news article: "Local man found dead with copy of book shoved down throat! Authorities baffled; suspect government conspiracy."


Originally Posted by Rhodes
So who's going to post the link for the Monty Python clip?


Not me. :nope:

Sailor Steve got a court order out to prevent me from doing such a thing. :arrgh!:
Liar liar pants on fire! You know I love links to Python. It's when you start thinking you're talented enough to do the whole sketch yourself that I start whining.:rotfl:

Ummm. Book, dark alleys. :cool: This gives me ideas (goes into closet to put on trenchcoat)

Sinister music in the background.

[Jimbuna]

Why go to all that bother if all your going to do is give him a kiss in a dark alley http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

[Biggles]

Okay since someone has already posted the Monty Python link (which, mind you, should've been me) then I just have to post the other link from the chaps, where they show how a real commercial should be made!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-DmwiAKDd8

[Rhodes]

I know that this thread would became like this...

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Geno_Mariner]

I get like... 70 spam mails in ONE e-mail account asking if I want penis enchancement or embroidered logos. I get really annoyed and felt like e-mailing every one of 'em and say "I'M A GIRL!!" but that would probably only get me more spams...

I love Monty Python's stuff :rotfl::rotfl:

[Blacklight]

I got one offering "Breast Enlargement" !!! and I'm a GUY !!!

I was FIGHTING the urge to send them back a picture of me with boobs photoshopped on complaining about what their product did to me ! :rotfl:

Unfortunately, if you answer just ONE of those spams, even if you're just screwing with them, it causes them to confirm that it's an active email address so your address ends up getting farmed out to 1000000000000000000 other spammers who pay big bucks to get their hands on active email addresses. :nope:

[Jimbuna]

Your right about live email addresses.....but what a response that would have been :lol:

[Zayphod]

" but a recent survey conducted by Sophos revealed that 11 per cent of people admit to having bought goods in response to spam messages."

And this ladies and gentlemen is the problem. Considering that sending E-mail spam, when compared to other advertising venues is practically cost-less, having an 11 percent response rate makes spam a most viable venue indeed.

Not just them - spam would cease if spam-friendly ISP's were completely walled off from the rest of the internet.

AGIS thought they were too big a backbone provider for that to happen. Anyone here know who they were? No. Know why? They went belly-up because of private blacklists on ISP's that didn't want to connect to AGIS. Eventually, all "honest" customers left AGIS, and they were left with nothing but spammers that they would allow to set up their websites, as long a they spammed from some other ISP.

On spamhaus.org, you'll find a huge list of ISP's that contribute to the problem. They get paid to "look the other way". Do a google search on Rizler Corporation - uu.net ignored every single spam complaint concerning this criminal (Chris Rizler, aka Chris Smith). What's needed is enforcement of AUP's, and blacklisting of ISP's that fail to enforce them. Until that happens, spam will always continue to be a problem.

BTW, Bill Gates is partly to blame. All those zombied DSL/Cable-connected PC's use his operating system that allows itself to be controled into spam sewers.

I could go on, but that's enough, I think. :)

[Brag]

I got one offering "Breast Enlargement" !!! and I'm a GUY !!!

I was FIGHTING the urge to send them back a picture of me with boobs photoshopped on complaining about what their product did to me ! :rotfl:

Unfortunately, if you answer just ONE of those spams, even if you're just screwing with them, it causes them to confirm that it's an active email address so your address ends up getting farmed out to 1000000000000000000 other spammers who pay big bucks to get their hands on active email addresses. :nope:

Yup, the best defence is to click the This is Spam button