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September 10, 2004
Its the year 2004, and after nearly 10 years of the existence of the Internet,
we STILL haven't been able to stop spam. Well, there has been a good
effort though, the major ISPs of the Internet are fighting the good fight
against Spammers, while raising prices of Internet access for their efforts.
More specifically, AOL, MSN, and Earthlink (among others) are putting
immense pressure on the spammers to create new tactics and things that will
be able to get past their spam blockers. There is also some nifty programs
like McAfee's SpamKiller. Even though SpamKiller sucks, it still filters
out all the mail that is absolutely shit, and gives me the chance to catch
mail that I actually wanted to receive. By the way, I get about 200
spam mails a day, and more often than not, I don't get any mail that is actually
what I wanted.
However, even with all the technology, skills, and millions of dollars poured
into killing off spam companies, it isn't solving the problem, rather its
making it evolve into an even more annoying one. Barely ever do you
even get any COHERENT spam mail. It used to be that you'd get a subject
that said "Look at these MILFs go at it!" but now its "M-I*L-F pr0n, ci+y
poli+ics v/ote Ge*9orge W. Bu1sh" or something along the lines of that. Of
course there is no reasonable way to block this overloading of complete and
utter CRAP. One spam mail I had received (which also sparked this rant),
contained a picture of a woman finger banging herself, made out of symbols
on the keyboard.
I mean, you've gotta be KIDDING me. What the FUCK is with this shit?
How long did it take this person to actually draw this thing out of
dashes, dots, perentheses and one red o for the tit? Spam is seriously
going to far and E-mail is doomed.
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