Comments on: A Spammer’s Christmas

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 03:47:30 +0000

I got my first massive spam attack (Phentermine) last night! Spent the afternoon fighting back to just take back what’s mine. I am SO installing this screen saver.

By: The Naked Green

The Naked Green — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:57:17 +0000

First SPAM
I got my first SPAM comment (in triplicate) the other day! Isn’t that important? Isn’t that some sort of milestone for a blog? Thanks to WordPress, they didn’t get posted but are awaiting my approval. I guess that could get annoying too, but it’s n…

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:20:25 +0000

Keep in mind, that the purpose isn’t really to DOS attack them. The purpose is to raise their bandwidth costs so high that spamming becomes unprofitable. After all, they wouldn’t keep spamming if it weren’t for making so much money from the idiots who actually click the links and buy their products. We can’t get rid of the idiots, but we can get rid of the profits.

By: Rod H

Rod H — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:15:39 +0000

If spammers don’t have to play by the rules why do we. DOS attacks are here to save the day.

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 23:00:21 +0000

I realize that what spammers themselves do is of questionable legality, but is it completely on the legal up-and-up to launch a denial-of-service attack on their servers?

By: Sigivald

Sigivald — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 18:36:52 +0000

I find that gmail eats spam pretty well. And for existing accounts, SpamNet (now “SafetyBar”, I think, from Cloudmark) eats spam very efficiently. But the latter isn’t free.

The screensaver idea is kinda neat, but it eats more of your CPU and bandwidth.

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:42:34 +0000

I use Choice Mail at http://www.digiportal.com/ to resolve the Spam. It has saved me much time .

By: Snooze Button Dreams

Snooze Button Dreams — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:41:13 +0000

Sticking it to the spammers
Lycos has invested a lot in anti-spam infrastructure for their users but spam is still a huge problem. How do you stop the spammers? Passing laws doesn’t work – they just rent servers in places where there are no laws against spamming. The spammers th…

By: Electric Venom :: Spammer Attack

Electric Venom :: Spammer Attack — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

[...] After a mere matter of days, the Lycos anti-spammer screensaver that I wrote about earlier is defunct. A victim of its own popularity? Perhaps. On the other hand, it may just be a c [...]