Filepro-list Digest, Vol 84, Issue 18

[Boaz Bezborodko]

> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:42:26 -0500 From: Fairlight 
> <fairlite at fairlite.com> Subject: Re: OT: Spam To: 
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com Message-ID: 
> <20110114104226.A8220 at iglou.com> Content-Type: text/plain; 
> charset=us-ascii 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->
> -- Audio panton, cogito singularis.

Mark,

You might like the contributions by Prof. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit 
fame regarding the Higher-Ed Bubble and being "Credentialed, not educated".

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/?s=higher+bubble

Boaz