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TR Spam: A question I have to ask

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Years ago, I seem to remember something about an Electronic Piracy Act that forbade people from committing acts of “electronic vandalism” on websites, etc.

In the off chance TR could find one of the spam morons in the USA, would TR prosecute them to the full extent of the law? Even if they were some 14 year old script kiddie?

I’m curious. Seems nothing stops them. Maybe someone with a badge at their door would?

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I would certainly hope so

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It would be a great strike against spammers. So far it seems none of them ever get caught.

Too bad its all just for search engine abuse. Because it is not like anyone would actually click the link on those spam posts.

I however am guilty of such advertisement to boost site ratings. I would put sites I hosted in my forum signatures, just listed off as normal links, size 1 font size so it looked like a line in my signature. I never expected anyone to click em, it was just for search engine recognition. And it worked REALLY well. For awhile our Husqvarna website had higher search result priority for Husqy products, than the Husqvarna website itself.

You bad bad spammer you

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:^0

I have done things like…fill space with invisible text. But, never spammed a bunch of stuff like that.

Just wish the FBI had the personnel/budget to pursue the in-country people here. I think enough people got locked up for 4 years with hardened criminals for that, it’d stop.

Double-post. No text.

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Odds are excellent they aren’t in the US

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And if they are, odds are against locating them. It may be the offending systems are controlled by a botnet and owned by the unsuspecting and ignorant.

Also good odds that it’s a real person posting those

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As TR is very different from most forums. A standard prebuilt bot wouldn’t work. So it is either a custom made bot, or a real person.

Too quick to be a real person

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Look at the time stamps.

Easily scripted.

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I won’t mention how in the open.

Even without a script

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Select the top 20 from the Forums front door and open them all in new tabs. Open the response window.

Cut and paste into each tab.

Submit, Ctrl-W, Submit, Ctrl-W, Submit…

I could probably generate 20 new posts in about as many seconds.

Want original posts? Pretty much the same thing, except you gotta put in the tags.

Wait, wait

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Don’t go so fast. I’m trying to write all this down.

Possible in the USA

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It would be possible, as ISP’s will provide user info, it seems upon a simple request.

However, if they are offshore, it may be more difficult.

The last link a guy offered lead to me to a website where I took their contact email and submitted it to a few spam lists, porn lists and then flooded them with an email blast from my own online server for a solid hour.

Hopefully he was able to find all his orders in a mess of hundreds of emails. 🙂

You are, as always, the MAN. No text.

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Heh nice!

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Might have to borrow your server for a few more of those.

LMAO

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Oz…that is great…spamming the spammer.

I should look at a Finnish server to setup to do that for me. Target known spam sites admin email with subject line: “Do you know you’re a spam bot?”

May I suggest

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If there is going to be a TR gathering, that the spammers be used as entertainment. In the middle ages, the big entertainment was on execution day. There would be vendors selling food and various drinks and it brought families together.

So, I suggest lynching. I can provide the rope if someone will build the gallows.

“Hanging’s too good for ’em!”

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And inappropriate. How’s about we force them to respond to Nigerian scams, or find something intelligible on MS TechNet? Oh, wait; lock them up until they can explain the difference between ‘client / server’, ‘SaaS’, and ‘cloud computing’.

That’s way too good for them.

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I think the Death By A Thousand Cuts is more appropriate. And I think onlookers should be supplied with salt to throw at the cuttee.

]:)

Combined with forcing them

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to drink powdered glass of course….

(snigger)

GG

Better than hanging

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Tie them to poles, and pelt them with cans of SPAM that were left in the freezer overnight.

After that’s done, donate the SPAM to a local food pantry.

Longer duration of suffering in an oddly appropriate manner; with a charitable act thrown in for good measure.

Me likey!

]:)

Two questions:

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1) Why bother freezing canned meat?

2) What did the people at the food bank ever do to you?

forget the gallows, two ropes, a table, and a winch will do

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stretch ’em out, tie ’em down, then use the winch and the other rope to remove certain parts of their anatomy – very slowly and painfully.

That is something…

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best left up to our legal department.

What I can say though – is how much I wish they were based in the US.

-Tammy [_]3

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