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2003-11-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-11-22 12:08|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 proweird+moderator@lists.elistx.com; on behalf of; cshepherd15@earthlink.net
From News Of The Weird

Illegal even if done to spammers !!

O Charles Booher, 44, was arrested in Sunnyvale, Calif., for going ballistic against the president of a Canadian spammer, DM Contact Management, which messed up Booher's computer for 2
months by overkill on pop-up ads for a product to make his clinton bigger. Booher apparently had threatened to sicken DM employees with anthrax and then torture and castrate them with a power drill before killing them (behavior which is apparently illegal even if done to spammers).

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-22 2:10:05 PM|| 2003-11-22 2:10:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Law is a little late for one man. Drudge has a link to a story of a man who went into a rage over penis spams out of Canada. Hearing is scheduled.

Mailwasher works for me.

Posted by Gasse Katze 2003-11-22 2:15:36 PM|| 2003-11-22 2:15:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Bayesian analysis of e-mail to filter spam, at the server level and at the personal level, probably offers a better way to fight the stuff than a law that can't be enforced very well. The hard-core spammers will move overseas where the law can't touch them. Hell, it's hard enough getting some governments to stop the Islamic "charity" dollars, think about getting them to fight spam.

Weakness of spam is that in the end, it sells something. That's how you fight it. I'm using a Bayesian filter on my e-mail (Apple mail) and having taught it what was spam and what wasn't, now I see hardly any spam at all.

PS: Fred, did you get the images I sent you? I promise they had nuttin' to do with the size of anyone's doinker!

Posted by Steve White 2003-11-22 4:41:54 PM|| 2003-11-22 4:41:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 They're posted below, under Iraq.

I use SpamAssassin to try and control it -- most spam goes directly to the Deleted box. But I've noticed that the number getting through is growing as they put in features to defeat the algorithms. F'rinstance, this seems to have worked for them:

Get a bar<!--basement-->gain for Via<!--decent-->gra, ha<!--hats hats hats-->rd to get dru<!--dont dispair somaman is here-->gs, So<!--tomarrow-->ma, fior<!--forever--<icet from yo<!--likie-->ur comp<!--cpu-->uter

comes through as

Get a bargain for Viagra, hard to get drugs, Soma, fioricet from your computer

All the comments break up the words that are keyed for rejection.

Posted by Fred 2003-11-22 7:42:27 PM|| 2003-11-22 7:42:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 yahoo! I could post my email without adding NoSpam to the front of it

Posted by Frank G 2003-11-22 11:46:30 PM|| 2003-11-22 11:46:30 PM|| Front Page Top

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