Topic: Strange Email

I just got the strangest email:

FROM: marycarter9899@aol.com

TO: skaarjj@email.com

SUBJECT: Top 10 Placement

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This message is sent in compliance of the new email bill section 301. Per Section 301., Paragraph
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no cost to you. This message is not intended for residents in the state of WA, NV, CA and VA.
Screening of address has been done to the best of our technical ability. (remove in subject line)
We fully respect your request for removal.


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Weird No? Should I start hiding my email address here?


Just when you thought that taste was dead, I came along and buried it - Skaarjj

[This message has been edited by Skaarjj (edited 04-11-2000).]

cookie?

tskull@techie.com">
"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself." --Henry Morgan
ICQ: 67751342

Whaddaya mean?




Just when you thought that taste was dead, I came along and buried it - Skaarjj

just set up a alias email account at yahoo.com or bigfoot.com or other place.

This keeps your actual(preferred) email account not so apparent to the rest of the WWW...

my .02 drachma <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

Heh heh, I used to get mail from Mary Carter all the time, her company must run some stupid bot that looks for both a name and an email on a page, and then they send you the "personal" mail! Rather than go to any great lengths to mask my true email, I simply filter all this crap out as it arrives, and send it right where it belongs! Maybe I'll start a new action, where it mails something *really* large back to them, by default? Not a bad idea, that.

Your pal, -doc-

Do up an automatic thingy that sends 'f**k off' 60,000 times.




Just when you thought that taste was dead, I came along and buried it - Skaarjj

gawd, I hate spam...

I do like tearing into spammers... before I formatted I had this 5MB movie of humping hippos. I would have a script to forge it into a server (or a couple different ones) a couple dozen times using different fake emails...

The, of course, the obligatory 'This is not a denial of service attack' email --an I dea I got from the comic strip user friendly

I'm a gemini after all.... and I HATE spam..

tskull@techie.com">
"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself." --Henry Morgan
ICQ: 67751342

We should start collecting lists of spammers, and then start sending them tons and tons and tons of email. It would be reverse spamming but on like a global level. I added that global level thing cause it just sounds better. In any case I set up a few different email accounts for different people to send stuff to. One for spam, friends, close friends, kids from school, etc.

Call me insensitive, but...

It seems to me that if you're going to make your email address public knowledge, you should expect some spam. You get in in your real mailbox, but you don't send a mailbomb back, do you?

Some people make their livings off of spamming net'ers. Just delete it, or read it, or masturbate to it, or whatever you do, and move on.

hmm.. a spammer sympathizer... must kill...
the thing is, when you're sending it, it's called 'email broadcasting', when you get it, it's called 'spam'.

Jestah, a technical impossibility, most of the emails addresses are forged. You could send them to the company email but it's simple as pie to change that one...

twitch... hmm.. good idea... gonna see what the people at 'Publishers Clearing House' have to say about ol' Mr. Krytical Mäss...

tskull@techie.com">
"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself." --Henry Morgan
ICQ: 67751342

I had a website that I got published to over 4,000 search engines and FFA pages FOR FREE!!! Worst thing ever. I didn't use my real email address because I didn't want all that possible spam coming to me so I used an alias thing with a free host @arashikage.8m.com. I forgot that anything@arashikage.8m.com forwards to my real email. So now I get junk mail everyday from these sites and I can't unsubscribe from them because if I hit reply it comes from my real email address which isn't in their list, the alias is. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/frown.gif"> I learned that lesson the rock hard way. SPAM BAAAAAAD!

Cna't you just forward all them there nessages automatically to your trash or something?




Just when you thought that taste was dead, I came along and buried it - Skaarjj

hmmmmmmmmmm.... just only give your real email addy to your friends and family etc... I dont see the big problem?

if your goona sign up for lots of stuff just use an alias... whats the big deal?

Alright insensitive, I dont create an email account for the simple reason of other people to make money. I open one so I can communicate with friends and family, as a 17 year old kid who doesnt have a job nor plans on getting one for a while it pisses me off when i get 100's of emails a week pertaining to porn, Earn $100,000 a day, or anything else. Truthfully how would you or anyone else feel about getting phone calls from telemarketers at the same rate you get spam? I went to Washington DC for the week, just got back today and I have hundreds of email, majority from spammers. I wouldnt want to get phone calls from 100's of people during the week so they can make money.

Yup...know just how you feel Jestah...BTW...who were you calling insensitive...Me or VP?




Just when you thought that taste was dead, I came along and buried it - Skaarjj

twItch^, read his post. The first line says :"Call me insensitive, but..."

You bring up a good point with the telemarketers. I hate that crap. I've actually been one and it isn't any fun being on the other end. Junk mail, spam, whatever you call it. It really sucks.

Aaaaahhh...I can see clearly now my brain has gone.




Executing a person who has done something wrong as an example to others is often a couse of action that leads to ordering the last person to cut their own throat as an example to themselves - Terry Pratchett

who sings that?

tskull@techie.com">
"War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau
ICQ: 67751342

Skaarjj sung it why?

heh heh...I just rewrote appropriate words to an asylum. The whole phrase goes 'I can see clearly now my brain has gone, the Doc gave me a lobotomy. Gone is the Grey matter that kept me sane, I'm gonna spend my life (life) in a padded cell.'


Executing a person who has done something wrong as an example to others is often a couse of action that leads to ordering the last person to cut their own throat as an example to themselves - Terry Pratchett

[This message has been edited by Skaarjj (edited 11-13-2000).]

LoL Skaarj.. thats a classic ! heh <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

Petskull: Johnny Nash.

ah. cool.

tskull@techie.com">
"War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau
ICQ: 67751342