[79705] in Cypherpunks
Re: Spam Update/Cyber Promo attacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Thu May 8 23:08:30 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Thu, 08 May 97 22:11:45 EDT
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970508203058.0099c100@gateway.grumman.com>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Rick Osborne <osborne@gateway.grumman.com> writes:
> >First of all, Wallace is a great guy and anyone who interferes with his
> >freedom of speech is scum on par with C2Net.
>
> That's your opinion, and you certainly have a right to it. I don't want to
> start the spam war all over again, suffice it to say that it's not an
> opinion I happen to agree with.
You expose your own hypocricy. Wallace is free to spam. I'm free to
ignore his spam, which I do.
> Like I said, it's more of a passive agressive thing. If I were to come
> across a page that said "Click here to spam some spammers" and that's all I
> had to do, why wouldn't I take 2 seconds of my time to do it? That's
Can you think of a way to have it originate at the browser's machine, not
your machine? Perhaps an activex program for w95 :-)
> certainly less time than it takes to go through the amount of spam in my
> mail each day.
I suggest you learn to filter your e-mail.
> And who cares if the pings/emails are coming from my site? For the email
> version I just add a header that says something to the effect of "This
> email was sent to you on behalf of someone at $REMOTE_HOST" and set the
You could also try an html form whose actions send mailto:your@enemy
> Return-Path to <root@localhost>. At that point, how can you prove that it
> was sent by your script or just by someone using your SMTPd?
He'll just filter out your site. Wallace has some very smart
people working with him.
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