[CS-FSLUG] Dumb spam

[Ritchie, Josiah S.]

If they aren't I've heard of scripts that find the biggest file on their
site and then download it constantly until their bandwidth limits are
exceeded.  :-)

JSR/

-----Original Message-----
From: Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz
[mailto:Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of Fred A. Miller
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:00 AM
To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Dumb spam

On Thursday 11 August 2005 10:57 am, Don Parris wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:23:11 -0500
>
> Steve McCracken <smccrack at hcjb.org.ec> wrote:
> > Nathan T. wrote:
> > > I've seen more than my share of spam mail that didn't say anything
> > > understandable, it was just a mess of random letters.
> >
> > As Fred said, It could come from the orient and therefore be coded
for
> > the characters there.  Also, I've seen a good share of Spam that was
> > unintelligible if only shown in plain text, but if looked at in HTML
> > showed completely differently.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
>
> My e-mail client, Sylpheed-claws, renders html mail in plain text.
The
> nice thing is that I get to see where the Paypal scammers are trying
to
> redirect me.  It's entertaining when I'm just wasting time. ;-)

I trace the hairbags and "turn them in." If they're in the US, they
often will 
loose their accounts with their ISP.

Fred

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our software, Never! We do have undocumented added 
features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost 
to you, at this time.

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