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rabidgnome229 · 07-18-08

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Originally Posted by Murlocke

They need to make spam illegal.

Sure it won't cut down on all of it but it would greatly reduce it when they are allowed to punish people for spamming.

They need to do something before its to late, adware/spam/the works should be consider the same as viruses IMHO.

The CAN-SPAM act was passed to fight spam. That's why most (should be all by law) spam has an unsubscribe link. There have been a couple of prosecutions.

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Originally Posted by OmegaNemesis28

Its weird because when someone took my AOL account and emailed over '100 spam messages'.... AOL shut down my account until I manually called them up and reactivated it.

Most of the bad viruses around these days (Storm and the like) create botnets. The botnets are vast networks of zombie comps that are used primarily for DDOS attacks and to send mass amounts of spam.

Peroxide · 07-18-08

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Originally Posted by rabidgnome229

Most of the bad viruses around these days (Storm and the like) create botnets. The botnets are vast networks of zombie comps that are used primarily for DDOS attacks and to send mass amounts of spam.

Yeah, there's some ridiculous stats if you look into botnets.

Actually kinda interesting if you think about it.

Choggs396 · 07-18-08

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Originally Posted by rabidgnome229

The CAN-SPAM act was passed to fight spam. That's why most (should be all by law) spam has an unsubscribe link. There have been a couple of prosecutions.

I've heard while clicking the "unsubscribe link" technically (is supposed to) stop the spam coming from whomever sent it; but by doing so your address is often effectively deemed "active" by the sender and your email address is subsequently given (or put on a list, then sold?) to multiple other spammers. Is there any truth to this?

Peroxide · 07-18-08

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Originally Posted by Choggs396

I've heard while clicking the "unsubscribe link" technically (is supposed to) stop the spam coming from whomever sent; but by doing so your address is often effectively deemed "active" by the sender and your email address is subsequently given (or put on a list, then sold?) to multiple other spammers. Is there any truth to this?

Pretty much how it works, they buy your e-mail, once you unsubscribe to them, they sell you to another one or more and so on.

boydyboyd · 07-18-08

statistics show that 68.9% of statistics are made up

72.3% of people know that

theCanadian · 07-18-08

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Originally Posted by Murlocke

They need to make spam illegal.

Sure it won't cut down on all of it but it would greatly reduce it when they are allowed to punish people for spamming.

They need to do something before its to late, adware/spam/the works should be consider the same as viruses IMHO.

Actually the counterargument is

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"it's not spam, it's advertising. By outlawing this adverising you are going to cripple many internet based businesses across the United States"

Besides, it doesn't solve foreign spamming.

Elyaas · 07-18-08

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Originally Posted by OmegaNemesis28

Well, thank god for Gmail. I get no spam in my inbox ever. It all goes to my spam box.

Ya...I haven't even deleted one of em yet I think...there are like over 500 in my gmail because I have had it activated since highschool I think.

LONG LIVE GMAIL!

Anth0789 · 07-18-08

Mostly all the emails I get on yahoo are spam.

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