From: "James Wilson" <netsurf@sersol.com> To: <extropians@extropy.com> Subject: RE: Skyrocket Your Webster Traffic Overnight Date sent: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 04:50:16 -1000 Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
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Get 200 friends to email them Netscape in an attachment, or register them woth NAMBLA under the nick curiousteen!
> The only real type of retaliation that works is hunting down and
> killing the websites and online accounts of the thieves. And this
> only makes a difference when they have a web page to be nuked.
> "Whack-a-mole" email accounts (throw-away accounts at places like
> Hotmail and Juno) can be created ad nauseum so getting Juno etc. to
> nuke them is therapeutic but futile.
>
> Other than that, you need a technical solution. There is one
> technical solution available: restrict posts to the lists to
> subscribers. Very few spammers actually sign up to lists or forge the
> name of a subscriber in order to spam the list.
>
> If someone who is not on the list wants to post to the list you can
> always set up a second list for this category (can send to list, does
> not automatically receive all posts) that uses the majordomo
> confirmation process and allow both the "full" list and the "post
> only" list to originate mail.
>
>
> - --
> James D. Wilson
> http://www.pixi.com/~netsurf/
> "non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem"
> William of Ockham (1285-1347/49)
>
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.com
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.com]On Behalf Of Julien, Howard (c)
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 4:09 AM
> To: 'extropians@extropy.com'
> Subject: RE: Skyrocket Your WebSite Traffic Overnight
>
>
> I'm beginning to wonder if some form of retaliation can or should be
> applied to
> the growing number of spammers we seem to be getting.
>
> Comments?
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe E. Dees [mailto:jdees0@students.uwf.edu]
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 1998 11:34 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Re: Skyrocket Your WebSite Traffic Overnight
>
>
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.com
> Date sent: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 07:13:11 +0200 (CET)
> To: <extropians@extropy.com>
> Subject: Skyrocket Your WebSite Traffic Overnight
> Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
>
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