spammer!!

[trekgeezer]

Now someone's trying to sell us hand bags! I killed to two posts by this turkey.

[Dunners]

Turn the spammer into their product. not that the world really needs a "spambag" but still.

[onionhead]

I had a fried Spam sandwich the other day--man, did it hit the spot!!

[odinn7]

Yeah, I saw those posts and I just don't understand someone signing up specifically to spam us.
Here I am reading the Badmovies.org board because that is what I'm interested in. Suddenly...I see a post...no wait...2 posts spamming handbags! I am certainly going to go to that site now and buy handbags from them. Who would've thought that in my furor to read this board all the time, that all this time I've been overlooking my true desire...the purchase of Chinese made handbags! OH JOY! I have found bliss at last! Goodbye everyone, it's been nice hanging here for the last year and a half but I'm spending all my time on the handbag site!
OH MY GOD! Trek got rid of the links! NOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo.....

[Texdar]

Has anyone every got spam for Spam?

[Blue.Brutal]

You know what I always wanted to do?  I want to put together a massive .bmp of a can of spam, and then send it over and over again as a mass mailing to the in-boxes of every executive working for a company that uses spam to advertise.  Then I'd send about 2,000,000 copies to that jackassin Africa who thinks I'm dumb enough to give him my bank acount number.

[odinn7]

"Then I'd send about 2,000,000 copies to that jackassin Africa who thinks I'm dumb enough to give him my bank acount number."

WHAT? That was a scam? Oh, say it isn't so...I'm expecting to become rich beyond my wildest dreams any day now.

[ulthar]

Blue.Brutal wrote:

> You know what I always wanted to do?  I want to put together a
> massive .bmp of a can of spam, and then send it over and over
> again as a mass mailing to the in-boxes of every executive
> working for a company that uses spam to advertise.  

Good luck finding them; they hide themselves pretty good.  Spam is often not legit advertising for real products, but rather a vector for other fraud based crime.

In other words, the companies that use spam to advertise generally are not typical, legit companies with execs sitting around saying "hey, let's market our product via spam."

On the tech side, one of the problems with spam is that it uses resources: network bandwidth, disk space on servers (which in turn causes wear and tear and leads to earlier component failures), etc.  If you send something back to them in a mass mailing, you are contributing to that consumption of resources.

A better solution: shoot 'em when you catch 'em.

[Blue.Brutal]

ulthar wrote:


> On the tech side, one of the problems with spam is that it uses
> resources: network bandwidth, disk space on servers (which in
> turn causes wear and tear and leads to earlier component
> failures), etc.  If you send something back to them in a mass
> mailing, you are contributing to that consumption of resources.
>
> A better solution: shoot 'em when you catch 'em.
>

All true, except the shooting them thing - they're sending out spam, not killing children, here.

And I know that I can't spam them back (legal reasons come into play here - because it's retaliatory, it falls under the heading of "harassment"); I just want to clog their inboxes the way they clog mine; is that so much to ask?

Besides, I'm not interested in the people sending the spam.  I'm interested in the companies sponsoring them; Governments world wide can't seem to figure out that it's only by getthing those guys that you can stop (or at least, slow down) spam.

[Menard]

Blue.Brutal wrote:
 
> All true, except the shooting them thing - they're sending out
> spam, not killing children, here.

Are people who are trying to scam others of their life savings, take advantage of tragedy for personal gain, or cruely harass people for the pure enjoyment of it much better themselves?

[odinn7]

I agree...shoot the SOBs. Kill 'em all, let (insert your god of choice here) sort 'em out!

[Blue.Brutal]

Menard wrote:

> Blue.Brutal wrote:
>  
> > All true, except the shooting them thing - they're sending
> out
> > spam, not killing children, here.
>
> Are people who are trying to scam others of their life savings,
> take advantage of tragedy for personal gain, or cruely harass
> people for the pure enjoyment of it much better themselves?
>

Are they better than people who go around killing children?  Yes.  Yes, I think they are.  Because that last part there - "cruely harass people for the pure enjoyment of it," take that sentence, and replace the word "harass" with the word "kill" and the word "people" with the word "children," and you get::  "cruely kill children for the pure enjoyment of it"

That doesn't sound worse to you?  I mean, by a fair ammount?

[odinn7]

Hmmm...you can't reason with Menard and it's really pointless to try now anyway. Daveblackeye is hunting him down as we speak. Really, this means you're trying to reason with a dead man. Now, let him go back into hiding where he can live out the remainder of his days in fear of the time that Dave finds him.

[Menard]

Blue.Brutal wrote:
 
> Are they better than people who go around killing children?
> Yes.  Yes, I think they are.  Because that last part there -
> "cruely harass people for the pure enjoyment of it," take that
> sentence, and replace the word "harass" with the word "kill"
> and the word "people" with the word "children," and you get::
> "cruely kill children for the pure enjoyment of it"


Is there much difference in the mindset of someone who kills and someone who tortures, neither feeling any regret in their actions and even getting pleasure from it? There is a difference in the end result, as a living victim, although perhaps scarred for life, does have a life to try to rebuild; but the person who did that will continue to leave many more victims. I personally feel that there is no greater crime than a crime against a child. There are, however, those who toe the line in being able to victimize others and still stay just out of reach of prosecution. They get a pleasure out of victimizing people and the reactions they get from their victims, and will continue to do it to many more. To me, they are no better than murderers.

[Menard]

What really frightens me is the thought that Dave has a sword in his pocket for me. Eewwww..