WARNING! Fodors.com exposes your e-mail address to spammers.
Jan 12th, 2005, 10:00 PM
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Robespierre is an idiot. *sigh*
> spammers can't see addresses that
> aren't indexed. At all. Not even with
> extremely sophisticated scanning
> techniques. On one of my commercial
> sites, I even publish my home address
> on a page that none of the other pages
> link to.
Are there any spammers here? Please tell me there are. Here's my idea for you spammers!
OK. First, take any worm that you like that continuously assaults my website with lines like this:
2005-01-10 00:08:58 24.193.11.195 - - "GET /scripts/..%c1%9c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 291 "-" "-" "www" "---" "-" "-"
There's a bazillion of these worms, so it should be no trouble at all.
When you get into someone's computer, after setting up the obligatory part of the worm, which starts attacking other computers, then, collect all the e-mails in all users on that computers Outlook/Eudora/ whatever contact lists, put them in a suitable format, then post the results to alt.anonymous. If you like you can encrypt it with PGP, or if you want to be a civic minded spammer, just spew it out to alt.anonymous in the clear, so other spammers can also benefit from your efforts.
Any spyware people here? You can follow the same recipe, minus the worm bit, of course... Why bother, when you can just make a cute little pink hippo animation, and persuade people to download that? Hopefully between these efforts, we'll get into someone who Robespierre communicates with on a regular basis, and be able to send low mortgage rate ads to Robespierre! With your cooperation, I have no doubt we'll succeed!
I think it's interesting that Robespierre never responded to my rebuttal of "You shouldn't have to screen your mail.".
I think we also shouldn't have to go to the doctor ever. We should simply never get sick.
Also, we should all stop locking our doors, because we wouldn't need them, if everyone would just stop stealing.
> spammers can't see addresses that
> aren't indexed. At all. Not even with
> extremely sophisticated scanning
> techniques. On one of my commercial
> sites, I even publish my home address
> on a page that none of the other pages
> link to.
Are there any spammers here? Please tell me there are. Here's my idea for you spammers!
OK. First, take any worm that you like that continuously assaults my website with lines like this:
2005-01-10 00:08:58 24.193.11.195 - - "GET /scripts/..%c1%9c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 291 "-" "-" "www" "---" "-" "-"
There's a bazillion of these worms, so it should be no trouble at all.
When you get into someone's computer, after setting up the obligatory part of the worm, which starts attacking other computers, then, collect all the e-mails in all users on that computers Outlook/Eudora/ whatever contact lists, put them in a suitable format, then post the results to alt.anonymous. If you like you can encrypt it with PGP, or if you want to be a civic minded spammer, just spew it out to alt.anonymous in the clear, so other spammers can also benefit from your efforts.
Any spyware people here? You can follow the same recipe, minus the worm bit, of course... Why bother, when you can just make a cute little pink hippo animation, and persuade people to download that? Hopefully between these efforts, we'll get into someone who Robespierre communicates with on a regular basis, and be able to send low mortgage rate ads to Robespierre! With your cooperation, I have no doubt we'll succeed!
I think it's interesting that Robespierre never responded to my rebuttal of "You shouldn't have to screen your mail.".
I think we also shouldn't have to go to the doctor ever. We should simply never get sick.
Also, we should all stop locking our doors, because we wouldn't need them, if everyone would just stop stealing.
Jan 13th, 2005, 07:41 AM
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Most of the spam on one of our email addresses can be traced back to some Dutch guy, Anthony Mircovich, who mistakenly used our address to sign up for various services, ads, whatever, a few years ago. We still get tons of spam address to his name (with our address). Tulips, MyriamC, or any other Dutch speaking Fodorites, if you ever run into Mr. Mircovich, we would be eternally grateful if you would slap him upside the head on our behalf.
Jan 13th, 2005, 08:06 AM
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Not a major issue
The address above is only used for Fodors, and after all if I didn't want any mails I wouldn't list it.
I get more spam on my normal e mail address to be honest and that I suspect is due to booking hotels in Asia by e mail.
Muck
The address above is only used for Fodors, and after all if I didn't want any mails I wouldn't list it.
I get more spam on my normal e mail address to be honest and that I suspect is due to booking hotels in Asia by e mail.
Muck
Jan 13th, 2005, 09:47 AM
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Everyone who says "I don't get spam because I filter it" or "I have a special address for spam" is missing the point.
Spam clogs the pipes that connects the internet together. The more infrastructure that's required, the more it costs the service providers, and there may come a day when the increased cost has to be passed on to us.
The solution is to not encourage spam by exposing your e-mail address on sites that don't hide them from robots.
Spam clogs the pipes that connects the internet together. The more infrastructure that's required, the more it costs the service providers, and there may come a day when the increased cost has to be passed on to us.
The solution is to not encourage spam by exposing your e-mail address on sites that don't hide them from robots.
Jan 13th, 2005, 10:12 AM
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"The solution is to not encourage spam by exposing your e-mail address on sites that don't hide them from robots."
Sure, and don't travel so you don't be exposed to potentially hazardous situations.
Sure, and don't travel so you don't be exposed to potentially hazardous situations.
Jan 13th, 2005, 01:11 PM
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Talk about coincidence, look what I just got from Eric Idle and the boys.
Well, there's egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; spam, sausage, spam, spam, baco,n spam, tomato and spam;
Spam spam spam spam...
Spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam.
Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
My computer and dinner table are ruined!!!!!
Well, there's egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; spam, sausage, spam, spam, baco,n spam, tomato and spam;
Spam spam spam spam...
Spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam.
Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
My computer and dinner table are ruined!!!!!
Jan 13th, 2005, 01:49 PM
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So you've been "cloaking" your email address for years because you have known for that long about the entire issue and yet were naive enough to publicise your regular email address on a site such as this without first checking whether they used "cloaking" technologies too?
And now, to cover your self-irritation you are shouting as loudly as you can about how sloppy Fodors are.
To be quite honest, this is a free site, we don't pay anything for it, Fodors hardly have a responsibility to "cloak" our email addresses from the world.
Yes, I agree, it would certainly be better website management and certainly be nicer for many of us if they did but...
... as others have said, it would also be nicer if crime didn't exist, chocolate didn't make us fat and we only had to work 10 days a year to travel for 300.
And now, to cover your self-irritation you are shouting as loudly as you can about how sloppy Fodors are.
To be quite honest, this is a free site, we don't pay anything for it, Fodors hardly have a responsibility to "cloak" our email addresses from the world.
Yes, I agree, it would certainly be better website management and certainly be nicer for many of us if they did but...
... as others have said, it would also be nicer if crime didn't exist, chocolate didn't make us fat and we only had to work 10 days a year to travel for 300.
