I'd just like to whine for a moment about the 300+ e-mails I get a day. I get about 2 or 3 legitimate e-mails per months, yet I recieve about 9000 a month total. this is way out of hand. I will sometimes get 50 from the same spammer a day!
But here is the really funny part: the majority of my e-mails are no longer spam. They are 419 scams!
That's right folks, I get more e-mails from tu-muhmekah in Nigeria wanting to get me 10 million dollars simply in exchange for my bank account number, than I do from someone offering me free pornography or, shall we say, an enlargement pill that I assure you all I have no need for.
This is out of hand.many of them I've been able to use the "Please click here to unsubscribe" thing to great success. Allegedly that's something they use to confirm your e-mail address, but frankly, all they have to do it not get a bounced e-mail to do that, not to mention that US law requires them to put that there. But I'm noticing more and more of them don't even have that anymore.
I'm getting sick of it frankly, because I'm spending 10 minutes a day deleting emails!
Posted by Skywalker at October 8, 2004 08:44 AM | TrackBackwell could you send thoe "enlargement" adverts my way perhaps since you have "no need" for them? (snickers)
Posted by: scotiahockey at October 8, 2004 08:48 AMThe first enlargement email I got made me mad. I called my wife and said "who have you been talking to?"
She reassured me that it was ok, it happens all the time and its not big deal. I really dont know what that meant.
Anyhow I have always wondered about the success of the fake bounced email. There are programs that you can download that will intregrate with your email program that will allow you to send a fake bounce with a click. I have not tried these but wonder if this would be an ideal solution.
Also I have toyed around with the idea of a running an email honey pot. This would be an email server that would handle the email transaction so slow that it ties up the senders email server. If you could get the same sender to send to multiple email addresses on that server it could start to make a difference.
Another idea is to play the DNS game. You would put a domain on the internet and try to get as many spammers to send you spam as possible. Than you would change the DNS to something none existant and this would slow the email senders machine when they tried to send you email.
I think the key is to slow them down. They are interested in mass spamming and do not have time for a single email address to take up the same amount of time it would take to send thousands of emails.
Were both engineering students. Lets solve the problem.
Just some thoughts....
Posted by: cwilli at October 8, 2004 09:25 AM"...an enlargement pill that I assure you all I have no need for."
LOL...(sure of ourself, are we? hahaha) actually, women get those things too. My sister and I *both* have recieved stuff like that (mostly, I used to get the stuff advertising the same results, but using a different meathod - or shall we say *instrument* to get there...OUCH!). However, now I understand why you and muddy IM each other all the time. It would take you 10 min. just to find his stinkin' e-mail.:-)
"She reassured me that it was ok, it happens all the time and its not big deal."
yeah...that's the same thing I tell Muddy. Don't take it personally.:-)
oh your thinking too much, I believe a simple dos attack would make them think twice.
:-)
Posted by: muddy at October 8, 2004 11:20 AMI've dated a few women who could use enlargement pills...but not the kind I'm being offered....so I need to get out rulers, tapes and camera's for prove it to all of you? :-)
The fake bounced e-mail sounds like the best solution. I know that I love giving out bogus email addresses to potential spammers when I'm trying to download stuff. For instance, my particular favorite is none@fyo.biz, that one is just fun.
cwilli, if I were you, I'd sustain my ego by not asking my wife what she meant by that.
scotiahockey: if you reaaally think you need those pills, I'll forward them to you! :-) lmao
Posted by: skywalker at October 8, 2004 12:56 PM"I've dated a few women who could use enlargement pills...but not the kind I'm being offered...."
Ouch...Burn! Look here, mister...it's not how *big* they are but how you *use* them! :-P *sniff* Besides, *sniff* I know how they feel.:-P
"so I need to get out rulers, tapes and camera's for prove it to all of you? :-)"
Yes
Posted by: mrs. muddy at October 8, 2004 01:41 PM"*sniff* Besides, *sniff* I know how they feel.:-P"
*cough* doubt it. Need less to say I wasn't dating them for breast size.
Posted by: skywalker at October 8, 2004 02:39 PM"*cough* doubt it."
thanks for the optimistic compliment. haha
"Need less to say I wasn't dating them for breast size."
Well, in their defense, maybe some of them were still young enough to still be ...uh..."under construction".:-D
Posted by: mrs. muddy at October 8, 2004 04:54 PM20 is stil under construction? 18? well...maybe 18...but seen her since so nope.
Posted by: skywalker at October 8, 2004 10:19 PMhaha....Hey, I wasn't sure how far back in time you were going with your memory so I was trying to be gracious and leave open the door of opportunity.:-)
Posted by: mrs. muddy at October 8, 2004 11:05 PMhaha....Hey, I wasn't sure how far back in time you were going with your memory so I was trying to be gracious and leave open the door of opportunity.:-)
Posted by: mrs. muddy at October 8, 2004 11:08 PM