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Thread ID: 44653 2004-04-26 03:06:00 A simple way too stop some spam Email? hay u (5059) Press F1
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232140 2004-04-26 03:06:00 Make it illegal to sell CDROM with email addresses on.

You only have to do a search with search engines to find out who sells these.
hay u (5059)
232141 2004-04-26 03:21:00 the spammer will find other ways to swap addresses.

the only way to stop spam is to not use email :-)
robsonde (120)
232142 2004-04-26 03:23:00 Well yes, but people who harvest emails are a bigger problem. And also, CD is just one method of transport. You can email a lot of addresses in one compressed file. As a test, I created a file in Excel with 2000 email addresses (not F1 users, don't panic, I made them up and copied them).
The plain text file was 52kb. Compressed, it was so small it practically made room on the disk (4kb). That means a million emails are very emailable in one file, or could fit on a floppy.
Mind you, you'd get 600 million on a CD, which is close to every email address out there, probably.
I like your motive, but not your solution. Keep them coming.
robo.
robo (205)
232143 2004-04-26 04:40:00 Nah!

Public firing squads for spammers, with world-wide television coverage.

A spammers execution channel even?

Draw lots to drop a spammer?

Recommission the Coliseum?

Boil a a spammer in oil day?

Sky-diving demonstrations, without a parachute?

Rent a live-bait for shark fishing


Too harsh?

How about a chain-gang then?

Motorway repairs and construction during rush hour?

Soap collection in Paremoremo during shower time?

Nothing's too good for such fine people.

Cheers

Billy 8-{) ]:)
Billy T (70)
232144 2004-04-26 04:50:00 well heres a simply way......don't buy the spammers products !! if no-one buys them then the company will go bye-bye.

companies are only going to pay spammers for their work if its worth doing. there must be a lot of people who buy penius enlargers ....mmmmmm.....;-)
tweak'e (174)
232145 2004-04-27 02:55:00 Those comments (below) are like telling people not too open attachments, and they still do, and they get the virus from it,

I felt my original posting was a bit strange, but I feel it is getting to the stage were we should try anything and everything.

> well heres a simply way......don't buy the spammers
> products !! if no-one buys them then the company will
> go bye-bye.
hay u (5059)
232146 2004-04-29 00:01:00 I must say "clear net" is doing a dam good job at filtering out the spam mail so I never see it, it puts all the spam mail in a folder at (clear) called "spam" belive it or not, just that now and again one slips past .

Now and again I have to go to http://www . clear . net . nz and log onto "webmail" to check it out .
hay u (5059)
232147 2004-04-29 05:01:00 >the only way to stop spam is to not use email :-)

:-( you stole my idea, i was going to post that just by reading the subject.
ilikelinux (1418)
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