Greetings from Slidell, Louisiana — home of spammer
Ronnie the Rodent
Scelson.
(More info.)
[Ronnie Scelson] can’t get hosting anywhere in the U.S. these days,[Steve] Linford said.We block him wherever he goes and we escalate blocks against any U.S. provider that hosts him.He said he currently views Scelson’s mailing operation
as one would view a smoking crater.— “The Spam Man”, The Times Picayune, 2003-01-05
Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.
— Roger Ebert’sBoulder Pledge
E-mail as a communication medium is under attack.
— Steve Atkins (Sam Spade) (source: Wired.com)
Spam is putting the Internet in jeopardy.
— Phillip Hallam-Baker (Verisign Inc.) (source: Boston Globe Online)
If you cause people to think twice about engaging in some business transaction over e-mail for fear it will cause more spam you are putting a damper on the growth of what is an incredible global commerce and communications medium.
— Ray Everett-Church (CAUCE) (source: BBC News)
Spam is not a technical problem. Spam is a social problem.
— John Mozena (CAUCE) (source: Wired.com)
Spammer’s Manifesto:
From each according to his bandwidth, to each according to his greed.
— Ron Schwarz
Anti-spammers are the immune system of the Internet.
— CDR M. Dobson
The Rules of Spam:
Rule #1: Spammers lie
Rule #2: If a spammer ever appears to be telling the truth, consult Rule #1
Rule #3: Spammers are stupid
(source) (expanded)
Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit…The ancient concept thata man’s home is his castleinto whichnot even the king may enterhas lost none of its vitality…We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another. If this prohibition operates to impede the flow of even valid ideas, the answer is that no one has a right to press evengoodideas on an unwilling recipient. That we are oftencaptivesoutside the sanctuary of the home and subject to objectionable speech and other sound does not mean we must be captives everywhere…The asserted right of a mailer, we repeat, stops at the outer boundary of every person’s domain.
— U.S. Supreme Court: ROWAN v. U.S. POST OFFICE DEPT., 397 U.S. 728
Bulk email and Bulk Emailers themselves are loathed by millions of Internet users & and [sic] 99% of the Internet Service Providers.
— Bulk Barn, a spamware vendor
(My products will make people hate you! Click here to order!)
Those who disagree with free speech have no right to free speech and should be rightly censored.
— Ricardo Hector Gonzales, spammer apologist (source)
Speech is not free when it comes postage due.
— Jim Nitchals
…People on the Internet do not want uninvited e-mail. Period.
— Sanford Wallace, formerly the most colorful spammer in existence (on MSNBC)
If you are an experienced and successful business person who is now immigrating to the New World of the Internet, beware! Nearly everything you think you know is dangerously wrong.
— Michael Rathbun: The Story ofNadine(section: The Moral of the Story)
You shall not steal.
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
— two of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:15–16 (NIV))
Please don’t let my hostility toward spam (see below) keep you from e-mailing me about something. I enjoy conversation as much as anyone. If you know me personally, please contact me. If you want to talk to me about some of the things I’ve written about on my web pages, please contact me. If you have some advice for me, please contact me! If you are not an unsolicited bulk e-mailer, and especially if you are aware of the terms described on this page, feel free to e-mail me:
I can tell the difference between spam and personal, conversational e-mail. There’s no need to carefully explain that your e-mail is not spam.
Please do not send me Word attachments.
So…you’ve found a mailing list for people like me and you really think I should be subscribed to it. And you find that all you have to do is give the nice people my address to make it happen. Well… don’t. If you do this, you’ll just get some innocent list manager into trouble. I think I’m qualified to determine what mailing lists I receive. If you think I might be interested in a certain list, e-mail me with details. (BTW: subscription verification is the only way to go.)
And yes, this has happened to me before.
I don’t want ANY spam!
— Monty Python’s Spam Sketch
I do not want unsolicited bulk e-mail, also known as spam
. If I
wanted your bulk e-mail, I would ask for it. (It would then be
solicited bulk e-mail.) If you send me spam, the people who connect you
to the Internet will hear about it, and they will probably get mad at you. They
may not let you connect to the Internet through them anymore if you send me
spam. If you live in some parts of the world, the police will come and make you
pay a fine or go to jail if you send spam. I am not trying to keep you from
being successful in business. I am not trying to be mean. I just don’t
want to process or pay for your advertising. So don’t send spam to me or
anyone else, and we can all be happy.
If you do not understand the previous paragraph, please read the Spam is Bad page.
Unsolicited advertising in e-mail is not the norm. Spam is not the same as junk snail mail. Spam burdens the infrastructure of the Internet with stuff no one wants. Spam slows down the ’net. Spam can overload mail servers. Spam is a nuisance. Spam can prevent real e-mail from being delivered. Spam damages Internet commerce. Spam is theft and trespass.
For more info on spam, please see the get involved section of this page.
CAUCE supports US legislation to outlaw spam. Under present laws, there have been a number of successful lawsuits against spammers.
I’ve written my congresspersons — have you?
To annoy the spammers ten times as much as they annoy me. To eliminate network abuse, including permanent banning or legal measures if necessary.
The fact that my e-mail address exists does NOT mean that
you can use it to deposit your advertising. My e-mail box is not a medium for
advertising or anyone else’s free speech.
Commercial speech is
not free
— in fact, it is very heavily regulated. Spam
is THEFT. Free speech isn’t free when it costs
me money.
If your phone number is listed in the phone book, does that mean that you
would like phone calls at any time for any reason? What if they were collect
calls that you were forced to accept? If you try to stop someone from using
your phone card, are you violating their right to free
speech? The use of my e-mail in-box is a priviledge — I refuse to allow
spammers to have free speech
on my dime. Beat the rush and
start conducting business in an ethical way NOW.
Clueless people who send chain letters via e-mail should know that chain letters that ask the recipient to mail cash are considered a form of inter-state gambling, and are thus illegal in most civilized countries, including the US. If an e-mail message seems to be serious and asks you to pass it on to others, don’t — it’s probably a hoax. Investigate it. Don’t spread the disease of chain mail.
Despite all of these warnings, conversational e-mail is strongly encouraged. I have had people ask me if I was interested in buying a product based on something I’ve ACTUALLY written in a Usenet post or on one of my pages — that is fine with me. Please keep in mind that I’m happy with my long-distance phone service, I don’t sell anything from my pages, I don’t want any nude photos of anyone, I’m not interested in any type of get-rich-quick scheme, I have a full head of hair, and I already take all the nutritional supplements I need.
You have been identified as an anti freedom, anti-commercialist enemy of the free market economy. In times when these types of enemies of our system of free enterprise is under attack, You and your cohorts will be sought out to answer for your crimes against a free society!
…
Your email address, Name, address, phone number , domain name, and everything that freedom-lovers the world over, can dig up on you, will be displayed for all to see on this great medium We created, called the world wide web if you do not change your selfish anti-liberty ways.
This is not a threat but a solemn promise from the businesses of the world and most importantly these United States Of America!!!!!!!
Prepare to be identified for the world to see you as the freedom-hating socialist you are!!!
— Dan Hufnal, professional spammer, in a personal e-mail to another spam fighter. (Grammar and mechanical errors as written.)
The original anti-spammer was in truth a major spammer just one day before two major lumber companies deposited a total of $275,000 into his account. He instantly stopped spamming and began what is now the biggest anti-spam ring on the Internet. We now know there are over 600 anti-spammers who are on the payroll of these two large lumber companies, and the exact number we have found to date scares the hell out of me…
— Duane Patterson, in his infamous Lumber Cartel note that started the whole conspiracy thing.
your like satans friend.
I think your anti Christ.
I,m not harassing,I'm jotting,and I like spam/meat.
Deal with me in your so called worst way,Anti meat is anti Christ.
…your acting as an anti Christ,a murderer of many souls…
Yes John,death is your friend,do your worst.
— various e-mail messages from a spammer with a martyr complex, as he typed them. (Jottingis his word fore-mailing.)
I realize that taking this stance means that I am an anti-e-commerce
radical
, a terrorist
, a computer hippie
, a very
disturbed nerd
, a net-Nazi
, a flamer
, a net cop
, a
cyber-stormtrooper
, a part of non-democratic forces
, a
censor
,
a freedom-hating socialist
, a communist, a left-winger, a
right-winger, a sufferer of
e-rage
,
an enemy of free speach
[sic], a
vigilante
,
a cyber-terrorist
,
and a member of the
Lumber Cartel
(There Is No Lumber Cartel). Isn’t it funny to what lengths sociopaths
will go to tear down their detractors?
Seriously — I’m a free-market, capitalist, pro-business,
supply-side Republican. You pay your own way, I’ll pay mine. To those
of you who say, Get a life!
, I say, since when does having a life
mean that one is apathetic
?
A spammer’s time is a good thing to waste.
Spammers are strip-mining e-mail addresses from Usenet postings and
web pages with spambots
. In fact, I saw the
following line in a spam I received 11 Jan 1997 (caps theirs):
COLLECT EVERY EMAIL ADDRESS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB WITH OUR NEW <spamware>!
Their spambots will hit my pages, doing the bidding of their
morally-impaired masters. Spambots are stupid, and will steal anything inside
a mailto link. I think it would be just and fair to have them
spam each other or waste time doing pointless
DNS lookups; therefore, I present
this spambait list:
Warning to sentient beings reading this: Do
NOT follow these mailto links.
postmaster@localhost postmaster@[127.0.0.1] abuse@[127.0.0.1] webmaster@[127.0.0.1] root@[127.0.0.1] sales@[127.0.0.1] admin@[127.0.0.1] info@[127.0.0.1] uce@ftc.gov CyberPromo CyberPromo CyberPromo CyberPromo CyberPromo CyberPromo CyberPromo CyberPromo CyberPromo CyberPromo CyberPromo support@deaa.org admin@bayoucom.net admin@cajunnet.net admin@credit-doc.com admin@cybergateway.net admin@alloptinonline.com admin@optinmarketingserviceinc.com carolyn@bayoucom.net fa@webdsi.com outlaw@postmark.net ronnie@cmpsource.com tech@freecybersite.net webmaster@freednsonline.com domainmanagers@ureach.com billy@bull-free.com JosephBowman@btamail.net.cn glemedia@btamail.net.cn glepub@btamail.net.cn taxsale@btamail.net.cn eno@eno.com global122@netease.com contact@callify.com more@inhomesoftware.com info@micguys.com batch1@btamail.net.cn mailmoreinfo@old.371.net info@rockymountaintoners.com sales@jlvproductions.com sales@fundraisingforyou.com info@clearebooks.com karl@frontline-im.com help@healthproducts.bz info@theemailtools.com best8083@hanmail.net cruises@cruiserewards.cc Ron@thecard102.com Ron@thepizzacards.com rruthe1267@aol.com info@1000contacts.com support@zodiaccasino.com ems_supple@pauch.com powerhouse213@gmx.net cs@rxcustomercare.com support@eSaverusa.com tracking@eSaverusa.com info@eSaverusa.com richard@poprx.com jim@poprx.com ang@poprx.com affiliates@myrxbiz.com payments@myrxbiz.com help@healthtomorrow.com support@excitedns.com x10ultra@sina.com information@officialamericangrants.com support@ourmagicbox.tv admin@pantiesgallery.com info@PaperlessEmail.com motorli@163.com f_liza@101mail.net coordinates@nuke.icbm.mil clinton@krime.gov reno@burning.gov go-away-or@i-shall-taunt-you-a-second-time.gov die-die-die-die-die-die@die.die.die.die.die.ispam.net youhave@beenscammed.edu mattfoley@van-down-by-the-river.edu ¥¤®@þØ.com longword@antideestablismentarian.ism tourism@ministryofculture.gov.elbonia ;;;;;;;;;@;;;;;;;;;;.org @@@@@@.org ++++@%.com ‡‰″⁄ℜ℘ℑ€ℵ∀∅√∠@⊗.com
If you like this idea, do something similar. Ensure that all links point to confirmed spammer addresses, bogus domains, or bogus addresses at spammer domains. The more bogus addresses they mail, the less attractive it will become to spam, or at least strip-mine the web.
I kill (the accounts of) spammers for fun.
Removal Instructions:
Spams sent to my e-mail address are immediately processed as remove
requests.
By using the special remove
address, a spammer’s account may be
removed from the net within 48 hours at significant cost to the spammer. I do
not apologize for any inconvenience this may cause spammers.
The official number of spammer accounts (e-mail/web sites/etc.) killed due in part to my complaints: 117 (as of 2003-08-15 )
The official number of open relays I’ve had closed (a.k.a. burned bridges): ?
I do not claim exclusive rights to these kills: other spam-fighters may have also complained simultaneously about these same spammers and sometimes it’s only after a large number of complaints that the admins take action.
Things that affect this number:
Legal things to consider: I’ve reported certain types of spam to the Federal Trade Commission; the Securities Exchange Commision; the US Postal Inspection Service; anti-piracy squads at Monopolysoft, Adobe, the Software Publishers Association, and the Business Software Association; a cable TV industry association (because of illegal descramblers); and/or Canada’s Competition Bureau.
I had at one time listed particular spamkills by e-mail address. I have removed this list because:
Just so you know I’m not an ogre: I’ve had pleasant conversations with several businessmen who had spammed me. They quickly apologized after realizing that they had been scammed by professional spammers (the only businessmen who profit from spamming). If you’re naïve, I’ll give you a clue. If you’re just a jerk, I’ll try to get your plug pulled. As the spam problem becomes more publicized, however, less leeway should be granted.
Do not buy anything from a spammer. Not that you would. Obviously.
Do not reply to sender, because it’s probably forged.
Do not spam them back, because, while you might annoy them, you’re committing the same abuse. Why you shouldn’t harass spammers.
Do not get hung up on the content of a spammer’s message. If an e-mail is unsolicited, and if it’s bulk, it’s spam. It doesn’t matter if the spammer is offering pornography, a cure for cancer, a chance to contribute to a charity, or reasons to vote for a political candidate. It’s all spam, and it all gets reported. (Content can determine how you report spam, though.)
Do not ask to be removed, because you probably won’t be. You’ll probably get more spam as a result.
Do not let the spammers discourage you.
Fight Spam on the Internet! spam.abuse.net
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
Forum for Responsible and Ethical E-mail
Those outside the US should consider joining one of the following, as appropriate: CAUCE Canada; EuroCAUCE; CAUBE.AU (Australia); CAUCE India. (Other national/regional anti-spam organizations are also available.)
Support the CAUCE organizations in their efforts to provide worthwhile legal solutions for the spam problem. A legal remedy that makes spamming OK if certain actions are taken is no solution. A legal remedy that establishes government authorities to pursue spammers is no solution. A legal remedy that depends on a technical solution to a social problem is no solution. Write your local and national legislative representatives and make it clear what will and what won’t work.
If everyone simply ignored spammers, they would disappear overnight. Ignoring them (trashing their spam without response) does help in the fight against them, but going after them makes their world even less hospitable.
Your goal is to disconnect a spammer from the net. You can disconnect him from his e-mail account, his domain name, the host for his web site, his professional affiliations or franchises, his e-commerce handlers, etc. You can sometimes nail him for unethical or illegal activities such as fraud, copyright infringement, insider trading, selling drugs without prescriptions, etc. You also can point out to the admins security problems that allow spammers and other miscreants to cause trouble.
Learn how to hunt down and report spammers with Sam Spade and UXN Spam Combat. UXN offers an excellent step-by-step spam tracing tutorial. AT&T can help you fight spam, and stopspam.org can help you read headers. Find out how spammers obfuscate their URLs. You need to report spam with full headers included: headers are essential. These sites provide instructions on showing headers with various mailers and web mail providers: spamcop.net, WHOA, gulf.net, panix.com, mindspring.com, fuse.net.
Register with Network Abuse Clearinghouse so you can easily send complaints to the correct administrators. SpamCop is another popular spam-reporting service advocated by many administrators.
These people want your spam:
testing, developing, and benchmarking anti-spam tools.
US citizens should report Nigerian scam (aka 4-1-9 or Advanced Fee Fraud scam) e-mails to the Secret Service.
Support (and if you’re an admin, use) spammer-blocking technologies like MAPS, creators of the loved/hated Realtime Blackhole List (RBL). Other services include Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS), the Spamhaus Block List, and SpamAssassin. If you are an admin, MAPS shows you how to secure your mail server. If you have the misfortune of running a Microsoft Exchange Server, MSExchange.org has some tips for making it less vulnerable to spammers.
Get involved with the SpamCon Foundation’s law efforts. As a conservative, I’m no fan of government regulation. But technological measures won’t solve what is essentially a social problem. Neither will attempts at a form of e-mail tax. A law that prohibits spam (not merely regulates it) is the best weapon that can be leveraged at a problem that is totally out of control, threatening the future of electronic communication.
Everything you didn’t want to have to know about spam(This page is listed. Thanks!)
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John Turpin.
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