"Spam King" Agrees to Stop Spamming For Now 194
Sandman writes "The AP is reporting that so called "Spam King" Sanford Wallace has agreed to stop spamming... at least temporarily until the FTC suit is settled" At best this is a precursor of things to come, and at worst it's a nice break.
But I won't get my spam :( (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But I won't get my spam :( (Score:1)
But the biggest woe of all is seening wich penis cream gives me the most inch per buck.
Maybe I should be swiching to penis pills, but thoughs are just herbal crap most of the time.
Re:But I won't get my spam :( (Score:3, Funny)
Re:But I won't get my spam :( (Score:3, Funny)
Interesting (Score:2)
-b0lt
Re:Interesting (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Interesting (Score:4, Interesting)
The holidays are over. Volume is right back up to ~1,500 rejects daily.
Re:Interesting (Score:2)
Re:When? When China is Partitioned. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Interesting (Score:2, Insightful)
Your post advocates a
(X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other le
Re:Interesting (Score:2)
You're not silly, you just missed the point of that link. When the spammer HELOs your mail server, he may well say that he's outgoing.whitehouse.gov delivering a message from president@whitehouse.gov. What he can't fake is that he's coming from IP address 1.2.3.4 (or whatever). You already know what netblock he's actually on, and who's responsible for that netblock.
Re:Interesting (Score:2)
I agree, we can't get rid of spam with this attitude. I'm simply stating the fact that this attitude exists
I think it's very important for people to remember that we know everything we need to know to blacklist spam-friendly ISPs. We know and we don't do it. Technical solutions have given us everything we need, it now just takes the will to do it.
Good luck with that, btw; I personally don't think end users care enough about spam to risk losing emails from clients.
one down (Score:3, Funny)
but he'll be back
This is a duplicate.. (Score:3, Funny)
Spam? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Spam? (Score:5, Interesting)
I just wonder what form of cyber-misbehavior he'll try next.
Re:Spam? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spam? (Score:2)
I've listened that episode of The Shadow.
First thing to come to mind, from a comment a couple months back:
"You are about to be eaten a grue"
Re:Spam? (Score:2)
He was forced to start hiding his spamming a few years back. Before that, he just said "Yes, I did it, you don't like it, I dont care, I'm Spamford, King of Spam, and I'll never stop."
Then he lost several major lawsuits and said "I've quit the spam business." But he never quit, he just started hiding it and quit bragging about doing it. He never got out of the business.
He's vermin, and won't stop until he's locked up or dead.
Oh no!!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Oh no!!!! (Score:2)
enzyte.com [enzyte.com]?
According to their commercials, it also gives you a gigantic grin.
The idiot (Score:1)
When he wants to come back, his place won't be there anymore.
Too little too late (Score:3, Insightful)
Wait a min... Sanford starting to SPAM AGAIN?!? (Score:2)
Re:Wait a min... Sanford starting to SPAM AGAIN?!? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Wait a min... Sanford starting to SPAM AGAIN?!? (Score:2)
Could not contact my parents by phone since they were vacationing in US.
So I try to email their Earthlink account.
Earthlink rejected my legit mail because I was running my server on a dynamic IP for cost reasons.
All I wanted to do was inform my parents of the birth of our new baby girl.
They just ignored my every effort to have them pass the email.
Years later though, my parents became friends with an Earthlink employee.
I don't have problems emailing them anymore.
Re:Wait a min... Sanford starting to SPAM AGAIN?!? (Score:2)
Don't expect me to try to justify what they did, as their anti-spam efforts have always tended to be a bit heavy-handed. Frankly, if it happened after the Mindspring merger, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. The whole mangement seemed to go into PHB mode after that.
Re:Wait a min... Sanford starting to SPAM AGAIN?!? (Score:2)
Spam King??? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spam King??? (Score:2)
Peasant: Well, how'd you become king then?
Sanford: The Goddess of the Net, her arm clad in the purest shimmering source code, held aloft Stealth Mass Mailer from the bosom of the data stream, signifying by divine providence that I, Sanford, was to carry Stealth Mass Mailer. THAT is why I am your king.
Peasant [interrupting]: Listen, strange women lyin' in chat rooms distributin' emailers is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandat
Re:Spam King??? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Spam King??? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spam King??? (Score:5, Funny)
Cheers
Stor
Re:Spam King??? (Score:2)
Re:Spam King??? (Score:2)
Re:Spam King??? (Score:1)
thought it was more of an autonomous collective... (Score:2)
Anyway, no, spammers don't have anyone in charge, though there seem to be about 200 big bad actors who contribute most of it, plus a large number of anklebiters.
"Spamford" Wallace has promised to stop before... (Score:5, Insightful)
Most likely, he's working out a way to offshore the whole operation into a shell corporation in the Bahamas, and will (again) laugh his way to the bank.
Infecting the net with spyware, choking the backbones with spam. Making his money in the sleazebag way he always does.
This doesn't change anything.
Re:"Spamford" Wallace has promised to stop before. (Score:1, Flamebait)
that ought to shut his crap down.
remember, this is the same dude who invented the junk fax, who was one of the first into spam, and now proven to be into sinister bots. death is too good for him.
Re:"Spamford" Wallace has promised to stop before. (Score:3, Insightful)
I think you're overreacting just a tad. Maybe the slashdot hive mind thinks it's alright, but I don't see how you could ever equate mass unsolicited e-mail being worth someone, anyone's, life.
I know I'll get modded down (AC, Karma is preciousss), but speaking as someone who was recently robbed, sure, I want financial restitution (I liked the fi
Re:"Spamford" Wallace has promised to stop before. (Score:3)
Re:"Spamford" Wallace has promised to stop before. (Score:2)
Add together the collective cost of stress, lost time, lost emails, support & software costs, you might say death was too good for them.
Re:"Spamford" Wallace has promised to stop before. (Score:2)
Re:"Spamford" Wallace has promised to stop before. (Score:2)
Re:"Spamford" Wallace has promised to stop before. (Score:3, Funny)
Now, now, let's not be too harsh. What career opportunities exist for reformed spammers? No, seriously. We should be looking at rehabilitating them, possibly in a role that is inversely proportional to the annoyance and frustration that they have collectively foisted on the billions that they have plagued.
PS Does my use of the word, "foist" earn extra points?
Re:"Spamford" Wallace has promised to stop before. (Score:2)
Well, seeing as how you were modded down a point by the time I clicked reply...no.
Re:"Spamford" Wallace has promised to stop before. (Score:2)
Reactor shielding?
Re:"Spamford" Wallace has promised to stop before. (Score:5, Funny)
Guys, I know spammers are not nice people, but *please* make sure you do not sign his business address (11 Farmington Road, Rochester, New Hampshire 03867. (extracted from the FTC complaint [ftc.gov])) for any sweepstakes, printed catalogs, gay literature or any other thing that might overload his postal address.
After all, spammers have already expressed their discontent with this practice, and Im certain none of us would like to upset these outstanding individuals any further.
Again, that is 11 Farmington Road, Rochester, New Hampshire 03867.
Re:"Spamford" Wallace has promised to stop before. (Score:2)
obvious next step (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:obvious next step (Score:2)
Sure, because we all know that Spamford can be trusted to fulfill his part. Until he's dead or in jail, he'll continue, regardless of any silly little things like laws or morals.
yeah, right (Score:5, Insightful)
Because we know there's no way he's passed off his lists and primary business to someone else, a partner or whatever, so that the revenue stream just gets transferred away from him while he's under investigation.
Didn't he listen in Marketing 101? (Score:2)
I think he really quit because I finally configured to just delete spam since the false positive rate on Thunderbird is now really low for me :)
Think of all the small penises (peni?) there will now be...
Oh, Really... (Score:2, Interesting)
Then again, maybe it's an indication most of this sh!t is perpetrated by students...
Re:Oh, Really... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oh, Really... (Score:5, Funny)
Within a week the new machines were all infected and things returned to "normal".
Re:Oh, Really... (Score:2)
Re:Oh, Really... (Score:2)
holy shit (Score:1)
WTF! That's where I used to live! I can't believe that. Now I'm sure it's possible there's another richboro in PA but I doubt it....damn that's messed up. I never heard of his company though.
Re:holy shit (Score:1, Funny)
A Friendly Reminder (Score:5, Insightful)
b. See "a."
Conclusion: Stop spamming as in stop spamming from US?
The Three Laws of Spambotics (Score:2)
Yeah, it's grown a bit beyond three. #0 and #4 were added later. Didn't Asimov do something like that too?
give the gift of bulk mail... (Score:2)
Interesting article from '99 about Wallace. (Score:5, Informative)
"I'm not spamming again," Wallace said in an interview with CNET News.com. "I am the most antispam person alive because of the trouble my old company got into."
Apparently he didn't mean it.Here's the full article: http://news.com.com/Is+the+king+of+spam+back+in+b
He's still spamming us... (Score:2, Interesting)
I hope no one clicked them links: Read the article? I'm not going to support the spam buisness model.
Ya right! (Score:4, Informative)
Idea.... (Score:1)
WE HOPE THIS MESSAGE FINDS YOU IN GOOD HEALTH (Score:1)
From Frank R, of Rhode Island: "I was a busy, on-the-go executive, with no time for breathing. All this breathing and osmosis and hemoglobin is too slow! There has to be a better way! And there is! Thank you, Rustyblunt! Now I have all the time I need to rest in my office while reading the same page of the newspaper for hours until my secretary walks in to find my mutilated corpse!"
From Cynthia S. of Rhode Island: "Oh my god, somebody call 911! Oh g
Re:Idea.... (Score:2)
Where's the spam... (Score:1)
Lately, there's been a significant decrease in the porn spam. What I'm seeing a lot of these days is home refinancings, free laptops and the Nigerian widow with too much money and no
Not to worry... (Score:4, Funny)
a new circle of hell has formed (Score:5, Funny)
asmodeus, on behalf of himself, beelzebub, azazel and baal, would also like to thank spammers and spyware creators for their innovations. they have been having a lot of fun playing with the new gadgets and technological doodads in this new circle and thinking up well, devilish new uses for them. just yesterday baal and azazel, after a rousing game of gta: san andreas, quite proudly demonstrated their wonderful new DDoS nipple clamps and botnet dental drills. The BSD demon cackled and chortled and choked on a packet in appreciation.
the gang down there would also like to remind all spammers and spyware operators that this new circle of hell has amazing bandwidth capacity for eternal delivery of viagara and vioxx offers straight to the frontal cortex, representing a coup in the r&d department of the lost souls there, who will of course, never benefit from the ip capital of their hard work.
spammers and spyware operators, azazel reminds us, will find that a *warm* reception will be awaiting them when they arrive in this new technologically advanced circle of hell.
Re:a new circle of hell has formed (Score:2)
Re:a new circle of hell has formed (Score:4, Funny)
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Where is he? (Score:2)
I mean the only way people would notice he is gone is that their email boxes would be more likely to full of their own mail. Strange concept but I think that over time, people may get used to it. Call me crazy but I think they will.
If only... (Score:2, Informative)
Stop Spamming? (Score:1)
Installing adware and selling a product to remove it.... To me that would be about like a doctor walking up and shooting you in the leg and then offering to fix it for a fee.
Ham story, spam story. (Score:2)
Someone else will take up the slack (Score:1, Insightful)
Spamford and his IE exploitz (Score:1)
Liar. (Score:5, Informative)
Rule 2. If spammer seems to be telling the truth, see Rule 1.
Rule 3. Spammers are stupid.
Article refers to passthison.com (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Article refers to passthison.com (Score:2)
http://okaygood.com/index.cgi?okay=get_topic&to
Re:Article refers to passthison.com (Score:2)
http://okaygood.com/index.cgi?okay=get_topic&topi
Re:Article refers to passthison.com (Score:2)
Overheard Spamford talking with alien cockroach (Score:2)
Spamford: "You can take my spam relay when you pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!"
Alien Cockroach: "Your proposal is acceptible"
Re:Overheard Spamford talking with alien cockroach (Score:2)
Interesting tactics (Score:4, Interesting)
The best part is the description of the tactics and messages used by the Spam king! Its stupid, but effective way to fool most of the surfers!
One advertisement mimics the "Notepad" feature of the IE web browser and displays a message stating:
If your NOTEPAD launched and is displaying this message. . . Then 'Spyware' programmers can ontrol applications on YOUR computer and it is URGENT that you download SPY WIPER immediately. Do not allow spyware programs to damage your insecure computer!! (See other window).
[Exhibit 1, as of August 30, 2004]
A separate advertisement causes the computer's CD-ROM tray to open and states:
FINAL WARNING ! !
If your cd-rom drive(s) open . .
You DESPERATELY NEED to rid your system of spyware pop-ups IMMEDIATELY!
Spyware programmers can control your computer hardware if you failed to protect your computer right at this moment!
Re:Interesting tactics (Score:3, Insightful)
I mean, who wouldn't buy a product that claimed to give you immortality, a 10" penis, the ability to sleep with a girl just by looking at her, and the ability to lose as much weight as you want by just eating junkfood. Thats why advertising law exists in the first place.
Re:Interesting tactics (Score:2)
He'll go to the Caymand Islands (Score:4, Funny)
Wallace: I'm sorry, I cannot divulge information about that customer's secret illegal account.
Oh crap. I shouldn't of said he was our customer.
Oh crap! I shouldn't of said it was a secret.
Oh crap! I certainly shouldn't of said it was illegal.
Ah.. it's too hot today.
Article (Score:5, Interesting)
Follow the Bouncing Malware! (Score:5, Informative)
Following the Bouncing Malware: Part I
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-07-23 [sans.org]
Following the Bouncing Malware: Part II
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-08-23 [sans.org]
Following the Bouncing Malware: Part III
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-11-04 [sans.org]
Following the Bouncing Malware: Part IV
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-11-24 [sans.org]
umm... (Score:2)
The day we stop spammers is the day we stop file traders. I'd rather keep both. I can mitigate spam.
...and in related news... (Score:2)
Agreed? (Score:2)
Personally, I believe that cruel and inhuman torture would be more appropriate.
New Slashdot Poll! (Score:2)
1. Pro-creating.
2. Wearing his seatbelt.
3. Looking both ways before crossing the street.
4. Complaining about all of those unexplained magazine subscriptions.
5. Breathing.
6. CowboyNeal.
Someone I know lives right near this guy! (Score:2)
495 Route 9
Barrington, NH
That's within a few minutes walk of these people. Just down the street. They practically live next door to him!
My $DEITY. I don't know what I would do if I found out I was living next door to Sanford
Re:I don't get it... (Score:2)
A lot of them do it anyway, then they wonder why they get so much SPAM.
It really boils down to money for these people, if they think they can save $100 on Office XP or Norton Utilities they'll do it.
Re:I don't get it... (Score:3, Insightful)