Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam

[Jimbuna]

Why go to all that bother if all your going to do is give him a kiss in a dark alley

[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!

[Rhodes]

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

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[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.

[Jimbuna]

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

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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