spam ban?

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Boosted LS1

Original Poster:

21,198 posts

271 months

Monday 8th December 2003
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I saw something about this subject a while back and am wondering if there will be less spam in circulation after 11th or 12th december?

Anybody know if we will get less of this rubbish?

agent006

12,058 posts

275 months

Monday 8th December 2003
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No.

We'll get less 'legitimate' spam. The really nasty stuff is sent by the people who really don't give a shit about the rules.

Boosted LS1

Original Poster:

21,198 posts

271 months

Monday 8th December 2003
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What about all the stuff saying I need a bigger dick to please the ladies or viagra or irrigation or toys for christmas or tv decoders. It's a pain.

Can't we get back at these people?

FourWheelDrift

90,135 posts

295 months

Monday 8th December 2003
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But we like Spam!

Man: You sit here, dear.
Wife: All right.
Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.
Wife: I don't like spam!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings: (Singing elaborately...) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!

Marshy

2,750 posts

295 months

Tuesday 9th December 2003
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Boosted LS1 said:
Can't we get back at these people?


In short? No.

The long answer? By all means try, but you need to know all sorts of murky gubbins about what various e-mail headers mean, what a whois query is, and so on. You can then complain to the ISP the spammer used to send the original copy of the mail. They might get canned from that ISP in which case they'll just sign up with another one and carry on. It's like trying to plug holes in a collander. Don't bother.