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by mg at 02:59 PM on October 25, 2001

This was in my box when I checked my mail this morning:

It’s the year 2005. America has struck back hard and is winning the global war on terrorism. But a new and frightening threat has appeared on the horizon, one that could destroy America’s oil reserves and the entire West Coast.

I thought, “Oh fuck! Have I sleep through another four years?!”

comments (9)

I haven't gotten that, but I do get spam from people saying that they found me through Bad Samaritan.com and wanting me to pay them to register my site with search engines. They are spamming the people who leave e-mail addresses in your comments! No one is safe. I get about 2 messages a day telling me I need bigger breasts. Is there a way to do bad things to spammers?

by MrBlank at October 25, 2001 4:38 PM


I saw an interesting way to stop spam on your website on a webpage...and damn if I can remember WHICH site, so I can't give her credit, even though she deserves it. She had her email address on her site like this:

wendy@REMOVETHISPART.skittish.org

I thought that was kind of nifty, because it had never occurred to me to doing anything remotely like that.

I don't think there is anything bad we can do to spammers. We just have to know in our hearts that a big karmic bitch slap is awaiting them somewhere down the line....

by Wendy at October 25, 2001 6:07 PM


Oh, I have been getting a lot of that "bigger breasts" spam, which (if you knew me) you'd know how ridiculous that is... :) I also get loan approvals, credit card offers, and about 20 free cell phone offers a day. It's driving me insane. Maybe it's time to revisit MG's guidelines on how to deal with spammers?

by kd at October 25, 2001 7:41 PM


I haven't gotten any bigger breasts spam, but I CAN "lose weight in my sleep!" or "become an internet millionare!" It's all very exciting. LOL

Does mg have guidelines? How did I miss them?

by Wendy at October 25, 2001 9:19 PM


This is post isn't that old post, but apparently from before you started reading Wendy.

How to : End Spam Email Forever

by mg at October 25, 2001 11:43 PM


I sensed a little bit of ire in that post, but not so much as to seem inproportionate to the subject matter. LOL

Thanks for sharing that mg. It was before I started reading here. :)

by Wendy at October 26, 2001 12:16 AM


The best way to avoid spam is, well, not to leave your email address laying around anywhere. Mr. Blank, if you have or get a url, then just leave that in the comments like I do. I figure if someone really wants to contact me, they should be smart enough to go to my page, and find the "contact" section.

by Charles at October 26, 2001 12:26 AM


Does anyone remember CyberPromo? They were ubiquitous once, sending me and everyone else ten or twenty spam emails a week (they were resenders; they'd charge an advertiser by the million and send a message to their lists for that advertiser). For all I know, they're still at it, but I'm the only person I know of who ever got off their spamming list.

I did it by first looking up the owner of the CyberPromo domain via InterNic WhoIs. I then forwarded the most recent piece of spam I'd gotten from them to that person's address with a message indicating that I would charge him US$500 for the use of my CPU and my time for each email I received from that day forward.

A couple of days later I got two more, so I sent another message to the same email address - it was an invoice for US$1,000. That message got a reply - he denied owing me money. So, I sent him another copy of the email I'd sent promising to charge him if I got another piece of spam and told him I'd forgive the debt if he removed me from his list.

When I got no reply and, instead, got another piece of CyberPromo spam, I wrote him again and told him that I would either get written confirmation that he had removed me from his spam list or he would be hearing from my lawyer about the US$1,500 he now owed me.

I have not received a single piece of spam from CyberPromo spam since. Too bad they all use fake headers now - I really enjoyed that.

by Muad'Dib at October 26, 2001 12:43 AM


If it happened to me, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. I could sleep through nuclear armageddon and wouldn't know the difference.

Okay, maybe not.

by Fredo at October 26, 2001 5:22 PM