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Re: [Asrg] News Article - CONFESSIONS OF A FORMER SPAMMER etc.

2003-05-12 12:59:55

On May 11, 2003 at 16:23 vjs(_at_)calcite(_dot_)rhyolite(_dot_)com (Vernon 
Schryver) wrote:
While reading that article, remember that sort of spammer is more than
anything else a pathological lier that cannot tell the truth, but that
thinks that it can always fool all of the world all of the time.
Nothing in that article is novel to anyone who has a few technical
clues, has seen some spam, and thought about tactics for pumping it
out.  Every bit has been mentioned many times in the favorite newsgroup
of spammers (and spammer fighters), news.admin.net-abuse.email.  It's
hard to say which of his statements in that article are partly true
and which are pure nonsense.  I suspect there is wishful thinking in
some of the technical bits.

I agree 100%, and would add that the telling parts are where he keeps
saying how he avoided this or that behavior because that would be
illegal.

Yeah, right.

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