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Tim S · 31st Jan 2007, 11:14

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/01...billion_spams/

hughwi · 31st Jan 2007, 11:15

thats just crazy, whats even more crazy is that over 10 thousand people responded!

bilbothebaggins · 31st Jan 2007, 11:26

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Originally Posted by hughwi

thats just crazy, whats even more crazy is that over 10 thousand people responded!

That ain't crazy, that's statistics.

Oh, and may they burn in hell

BioSniper · 31st Jan 2007, 11:28

Shame the ammount of spam I recieve still hasn't gone down though

Mankz · 31st Jan 2007, 11:37

Seves them right. They cause people inconvinences, so they should pay people back...

...with prison time of course.

Echo · 31st Jan 2007, 12:51

Fantastic News!

ComputerKing · 31st Jan 2007, 13:11

ROFL , Big ass Spamer

Spaceraver · 31st Jan 2007, 13:29

yay... that is a step in the right direction... now lock them up for good, throw away the key and forget to feed them

kylelnsn · 31st Jan 2007, 13:34

i used never to get any spam mabe 1 a month, but as of november last year i started gettign 15 a day, i got thousands now. luckly gmail puts it in the spam folder so i dont have to worry.

but that mite exxplain it?

anyways me hates da spammers!

Paradigm Shifter · 31st Jan 2007, 15:30

1.6 billion spam messages?

Ouch.

SteveyG · 31st Jan 2007, 16:13

They should be forced to use 28k modems for the rest of their lives.

devenfore · 31st Jan 2007, 16:21

Now they need to go after the people that bought the information from them...

That would help a lot.

samkiller42 · 31st Jan 2007, 16:28

The question i want to ask is why, why do it? and looking at it, the obviuos answer is "Money" God dam it, i wish we didnt need money.

Sam

DXR_13KE · 31st Jan 2007, 20:56

jail time my ass, forced labor in a salt mine with sadistic satanists lashing them with chickens.

specofdust · 31st Jan 2007, 21:54

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jail time my ass, forced labor in a salt mine with sadistic satanists lashing them with chickens.

I actually really really like this one. Spammers are pretty much as low a lifeform as you can get on the net.

pendragon · 31st Jan 2007, 22:26

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Originally Posted by Mankz_91

Seves them right. They cause people inconvinences

...and violate laws

bloodcar · 31st Jan 2007, 22:40

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Originally Posted by SteveyG

They should be forced to use 28k modems for the rest of their lives.

Why? You can do just as much damage on a 28k connection as you can a 100M connection. They're not actually sending the mails out themselves, they're using their botnets.

Cthippo · 1st Feb 2007, 02:02

12,000 responses.

Take those people's computers away and maybe you'll put a dent in spam. As long as people respond to spam, there will be spam.

specofdust · 1st Feb 2007, 02:04

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Originally Posted by Cthippo

12,000 responses.

Take those people's computers away and maybe you'll put a dent in spam. As long as people respond to spam, there will be spam.

There'll always be desperate foolish people though. There is no malice in them. There is greed and selfishness in the people who send them out though, and for that reason they are the ones to go after.

The way that russian spammer got stopped last year(IIRC) was the best way devised yet, and it's a shame more aren't stopped the same way.

bloodcar · 1st Feb 2007, 02:33

Hey, I can name one thing that was good that came from spam.... the X10 camera. I never bought one myself, but I've seen several and those damn things were a steal.

31st Jan 2007, 11:14	#1
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1st Feb 2007, 02:33	#20
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