Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:03:38 -0800 From: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, sef@Kithrup.COM Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Junk mail from hackers list Message-ID: <199703060603.WAA00742@hamby1>
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> Also, in response to Terry's original message: no, AOL does not mine > addresses. If you send email to someone at AOL, your address does not get > recorded by anyone but the recipient (and certain log files, of course -- > but the same is true here). To be honest, I haven't seen much spam on the > hacker's list. And all of my junk email apparantly comes from posting to > usenet. (rec.arts.sf.written resulting in the most junk.) And, gosh, Terry > certainly posts a lot to usenet; maybe *that*'s where his address is being > found, hm? > > Sean. I don't get much spam, and it doesn't bother me to just click "Delete". But what really annoys me are the X-rated spam that assumes we are all just lonely guys willing to pay big bucks for naked pics, the ones that look like: >From: Cyndi (or some sexy-sounding name) >Subject: hi > >hi I found this cool site on the Internet. Check it out! > >http://www.porn.sex.spam.whatever.com/ Is anyone actually so STUPID that they DON'T REALIZE this is an ad? Maybe they hope you talk to so many people (in seedy chat rooms, presumably!) that you don't know the e-mail addresses of all your friends... That's offensive! Besides, lonely guys with a CLUE know you can get naked pics from USENET for free. ;) Well, amidst the spam, that is. Perhaps a quote from Boomhauer of my new favorite cartoon (KOTH of course!) would be appropriate: "Yeah man, I tell ya what, man...That dang ol' Internet, man...You just go on there and point and click...Talk about W-W-dot-W-com...An' lotsa nekkid chicks on there, man... Click. Click. Click. Click. Click....It's real easy man." -- Jake
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