Ok, so I get an email from group protesting the illegal spaming of microsoft network customers from microsoft. But here's the thing.....
They sent me a spam email protesting the use of spam emails...
Ummm.......
Am I the only one who fully appreciates how retarded that is!
No, I understand it as well. Spam is indeed a pretty terrible thing.
Here's the only truly surefire way to deal with it. Set your filters to only accept e-mail from preapproved addresses. Of course if you run a business where you must be able to stay in contact with any number of unknown strangers who may e-mail you at any time, you are screwed, but otherwise this will do the trick.
Also don't give out your email address except to people you know.
That helps, it reallly does, but you are still subject to random e-mail address generators. Some of these programs will actually just generate a lot of random characters and tag it in front of known e-mail domains. So, you can still get stuff just at random. The worst is someitmes they randomly generate the "from" address too (so you can't track them, the thing about e-mail is it's a "dumb" protocal, with no way to actually force any of the data to be honest). This is only really bad when out of the blue you get an e-mail from some angry person saying "stop sending me spam!", when clearly you have not nor could you have sent them said spam. Since I only really got these back when I still had a yahoo address, not even a virus could have been responsible for that.
HUMPH
is not email I understand throw ROCK
(hurting rock does for them) *nods*
ROCK THROW ROCK *throw!*
I AM RULER NOW
Deciples: ROCK! ROCK! ROCK! ROCK!
Effing right!
....hehehehehheheheheheh SILENCE!
I, GRAKSPAMLADONICOUS, SMITE THEE WITH IMPUTENCE AND MOCK YOUR FOOLISH HERITAGE. WE WILL EVOLVE BEYOND WHAT YOUR SIMPLE MINDS COULD EVER HAVE HOPED TO ACHIEVE MY ROCK IS HUGER
*THROWS GIANT ROCK*
this rock much hurt more need help fight better diction use vocabulary destroy your rock with LASER EYE BALLS DEATH RAY KILL
KING GRAKSPAMLADONICOUS: ....death ray? *ZZZZZZART*
now mate eat sleep too long spam gone now ending END
END~
I nominate a fourth option: Put a $50 bounty on the head of every spammer killed. That should provide the kind of discouragement we're looking for.
Darunia Wrote:I nominate a fourth option: Put a $50 bounty on the head of every spammer killed. That should provide the kind of discouragement we're looking for.
:)
Well, check my sig. They must believe in karma, meaning you can hurt anyone you like because whatever happens to them, they deserve it!