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Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Dec 10 03:55:39 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 22:36 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 22:09, Jay Moore wrote:
>
> > Oh come on :) Do you really believe the sleazy Viagra and porn
> > peddlers who are funding the spamming machines pay these guys for
> > trying? If that were the case, there would be no incentive for them to
> > adapt and survive - and they have certainly done that.
> >
> > Jay
>
> You are right. We need to track down the small percentage of people
> that actually buy products via spam and take their computers away from
> them. Then there would be no money in it for the spammers or their
> slimy customers. :)
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you mean - outlaw stupidity?
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> Actually that is a good plan, send out a bunch of spam advertising
> something that is irresistible to the same people that buy from spam.
> Collect their IP addresses along with their names, credit card numbers,
> etc. track them down and remove the electric meters from their houses.
> Then work out a deal with all the ISPs to prevent those users from ever
> getting an Internet account again.
>
> Eliminate the source of the spammers income and the spam should stop.
> :)
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PT Barnum told us about this nearly a century ago. You can't idiot proof
something because there is always a bigger and better idiot.
Craig
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