Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:45:21 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Speel checkers?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
>
> "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> > So I get this wonderful offer for 14,000,000 email eddresses -
> > guaranteed ISP termination proof.
>
> That's right!  Spam those addresses, and NOT ONE of those fourteen
> million addresses will be terminated by their ISP!  Guaranteed!
>
> > "This message is a one time mailing and will never be repeated again.
>
> I'm often told that by spammers, and it's always true.  I often get
> hundreds of messages identical to that one on the same day, but I
> never again get that particular message, e.g. the one sent at 13:24:56
> or whenever.
>
> > If you do not respond, you will aoutomatically be removed from our
> > database and will not receive any further mailings."
>
> > Aoutomatically?
>
> Spammers are almost as well known for their poor spelling and
> atrocious grammar as they are for their stupidity, dishonesty, and
> gullibility.  Do a Google search on "frea speach" to learn that it
> is the right of every spammer to repeatedly stuff your mailbox with
> gigabytes of fraudulent forged garbage and refuse to ever stop.  And
> to sue you if you complain.  Not to be confused with "free speech"
> which is what spammers make almost impossible on the net.
>
> This afternoon I got spam from a "morgage" [sic] company.
>
> Here are excerpts from replies spammers made to my complaints.
> [snip clueless drivel from spammers]

Another interesting aspect of spam just showed up.  My ISP uses a rather
well-regarded spam filtering company to process all their e-mail.
(http://www.postini.com/)  I haven't had any problem with it until
today, when significant chunks of this discussion landed in the spam
bucket.

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."