OT: Spam

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With neither thought nor caution, Kenneth Brody blurted:
> On 1/14/2011 2:04 AM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> [...]
> > The vast majority of messages that end up in my postmaster folder
> > is spam which then gets fed into spamassassin's sa-learn as
> > fodder for the Bayesian filters.
> >
> > I do find it amusing that spammers, phishers, et al send their
> > trash to role accounts dedicated to nuking them.
> 
> To do otherwise would require:
> 
>      Examining the addresses.
> 
>      Actually removing some addresses from their "16 million opt-in" lists.
> 
>      Caring.
> 
> Besides, everyone knows that sysadmins only do it because they have no 
> diploma to get a "real" job, are underpaid and will jump at the chance to 
> help some poor old widow sneak millions of dollars out of the country, and 
> can't get a girlfriend because some body parts are too small (and others are 
> too big).  It's the perfect target audience.
> 
> 
> I assume this isn't necessary, but...    :-)

You're on thin ice with the degree crack. :) I'm actually proud of that,
though.  I stopped handing money to an insitution I don't believe in (and
never did--I was blackmailed into attending) in the first place, and just
learned the stuff on my own.  I stayed as long as I did because it was the
cheapest net access at the time ($3k/yr instead of $3k/month and bring $2k
worth of your own modems).  A lot of the time, I actually feel I'm smarter
than those who stayed, who don't remember 95% of what the piece of paper
says they supposedly should, and who paid for that (thus worthless) piece
of paper.

A college degree is no longer so much a measure of how educated a person
is, as it is of how gullible and how much of a conformist they are--and how
many loans they were left pay off.

Other than that one comment, though...hilarious!  :)

Oh...yeah....the actual reason for my reply... (You sidetracked me!)
Nevermind the garden variety spammers.  You know the CAN-SPAM act?  WinZip
Computing and their partners are in violation of it in spirit, if not in
letter.  They provide an opt-out address, but they don't actually act on
the requests to opt out.  It's been six months since I opted out, and
I'm still getting spam from them, shilling new versions of their lousy
software, as well as messages from corporate partners of theirs doing the
same for their software.  None of those parties have acted on any removal
request.  In fact, neither has Serif, despite the fact I actually -like-
their quality software.  And these are corporations that -should- care, but
don't.  And presumably, their management and admins don't fit the above
profile.  Well, can't speak for WinZip, but Serif's people are good--I've
talked to some of them.

mark->
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