What's the deal with all this damn SPAM!!!???
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Joined: 08-23-2006
Posts: 1,720
From: So Cal
The word is out and the spamming has reached epic proportions:
Bot nets likely behind jump in spam
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus
Estimates of the magnitude of the increase in junk e-mail vary, but experts agree that an uncommon surge in spam is occurring. On the low side, Symantec, the owner of SecurityFocus, has found that average spam volume has increased almost 30 percent for its 35,000 clients in the last two months. Others have seen much more significant jumps: Spam black list maintainer Total Quality Management Cubed has seen a 450 percent increase in spam in two months, and the amount of spam filtered out every week by security software maker Sunbelt Software has more than tripled compared to six months ago.
Bot nets likely behind jump in spam
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus
Estimates of the magnitude of the increase in junk e-mail vary, but experts agree that an uncommon surge in spam is occurring. On the low side, Symantec, the owner of SecurityFocus, has found that average spam volume has increased almost 30 percent for its 35,000 clients in the last two months. Others have seen much more significant jumps: Spam black list maintainer Total Quality Management Cubed has seen a 450 percent increase in spam in two months, and the amount of spam filtered out every week by security software maker Sunbelt Software has more than tripled compared to six months ago.
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Joined: 04-19-2006
Posts: 5,065
From: Arvada CO
Apparently there are more people than ever that don't have anything better to do that mess with other people. The only way to get past all that is to have it where each person has to be approved before posting. The downside to that is the amount of time it occupies for admin and mods.
On some of the other forums where I post, the admin sends an email to the person after they join. If it's not a valid email address they are either banned or put on moderated posting.
Unfortunately the world is full of spammers...look at the junk mail we get in our snail mail and on our phones. It's neverending unfortunately.
On some of the other forums where I post, the admin sends an email to the person after they join. If it's not a valid email address they are either banned or put on moderated posting.
Unfortunately the world is full of spammers...look at the junk mail we get in our snail mail and on our phones. It's neverending unfortunately.
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Joined: 10-14-2005
Posts: 9,121
From: Rochester,N.Y.
I had to laugh at that one because that has to be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard of. I wonder if anyone is actually dumb enough to fall for it? 
Hell I wonder if anyone is dumb enough to fall for any type of spam? 
Hell I wonder if anyone is dumb enough to fall for any type of spam?
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Joined: 07-26-2006
Posts: 903
From: Soon to be Longview, Texas
Originally Posted by captain howdy
They are annoying but good for a laugh sometimes. Like the one for the penis growth patch this morning. 
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Joined: 04-30-2006
Posts: 9,149
From: Maryland Heights, MO
The Menu
- Egg and bacon
- Egg, sausage and bacon
- Egg and spam
- Egg, bacon and spam
- Egg, bacon, sausage and spam
- Spam, bacon, sausage and spam
- Spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam
- Spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, bacon, spam, tomato and spam (this is only in the radio version's menu, but the TV version features the Hungarian trying to order it)
- Spam, spam, spam, egg, and spam
- Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam
- Lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce served in the Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with trufflepaté, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam