Today's WSJ had an article about big-time spammers getting a dose of their own medicine: PBXs hacked and phones ringing off the hook, prank snail mail magazine subscriptions, and email boxes bombed with anti-spam literature. Google News and Technorati lead to some online stories: Wired Online and [via Born Angry blog]. The spammers that have been interviewed all say they only send out email to people who've opted in to receive spam. That is BS. I get inordinate amounts of spam that are addressed to alias addresses I use only to register domains with. These scum or their bottom-feeding cohorts are skimming address off of whois records and the rest of the internet, plain and simple. Of course, I neither condone nor condemn spam or anti-spam activities. Those folks have made their beds, pissed in them, and now have to sleep it off. Feh! Want to unite to fight unsolicited commercial email? Here's a couple of links: SPEWS and Spamhaus.
Posted by jim at May 19, 2003 05:21 PM | TrackBack