Posts by BenWilson
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Even though I lament yet another address-harvesting right-winger sending out this sort of clumsy unsolicited email, and even though I think the letter is mendacious, I wouldn't be comfortable with that politically.
It's probably not necessary anyway. If he really is spamming this shit to a purchased or harvested list of addresses, it's going to end up in honeypots, and get blocked automatically, on account of flood-detection, and various other triggers in the message. The "reply with 'not interested'" triggers a lot of heuristics, as does the "Click here to sign". The link through gives a perfect signature for the message, so it will easily be found in future messages, which will in turn be rapidly marked as spammy, and the address ranges he's sending from, and his domain, will end up tarred. It's just how it is.
Basically it's a foolish way to spread the word. Most of the political spam I've had to deal with over the years has been neo-Nazi, which says a lot. I just wanted people to know that they can do something about things they consider to be spam. I don't care to have the argument whether something is technically spam - that's for people to decide for themselves.
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When people start seriously talking about political enemies rather than political opponents, and comparing - even humorously - their 'enemies' to pornographers this will never happen.
By that logic, it never has happened, then, because that's always been what people do. You're making your own little hyperbole, right?
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Seriously, dude: I don't need to remind you of some of your own more colourful turns of phrase, do I?
I'm still trying to think about how Debbie could do dog-ass. Perhaps she goes all Edward Penishands about it.
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But come on -- a rather cheesy rip of an already cheesy graphic that has been imitated and parodied endlessly over the last two year being worse than animal porn? Really?
Choose your own ordering and punctuation for the following 3 words:
Not
No
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After the Delicious debacle, I went to a place a couple of shops down called something like "The Cake Shop" (it certainly had the word cake in there). I asked if they had any cakes. They looked at me like I was crazy. I figured this was BS and I didn't need really need a cake after all, and decided instead to have a cup of tea. Lo and behold there was a place call "The Gypsy Tea Rooms" across the street. Did they serve tea? No. I guess I did feel genuinely gypped, though, maybe that was the joke.
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A new low.
What are you on? I didn't know there was a pill for losing any sense for sarcasm. Too much courtroom detail?
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We actually have such a thing? Tell us more.
Can't speak for anyone without hearing about their setup, but just about anyone who has any kind of antispam solution has a way of reporting it. Even my hotmail account has it. These things work better if more people use them - one person junking something is just noise, 100 people doing it is a trend, and triggers a lot of things - heuristic filters become more aggressive on the message. The IP address, or range of addresses may be blacklisted, or sender address or domain etc. This is completely independent of any laws about spam.
I'm not interested in the group's campaign, however I don't see what the big deal is about- the message is not illegal in NZ:
It's not a big deal. It's a minor annoyance, that is easily dealt with. It does say a lot about the nature of the sender, though. I thought the email response was spot on by saying the campaign is now tarred with the same brush as penis enlargement technology.
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As an antispam professional, I must advise against responding with the "not interested" email he is trying to solicit. This is used as a tactic to confirm that your email address is active and being used by a human being. If you want to do something, submit it to your usual spam junking service, which might result in his mail being blocked for a lot of other people.
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The idea that California would be able to tell Wyoming, the District of Columbia, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, Idaho, Nebraska, West Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Iowa who the President of the United States should be, doesn't seem quite right.
Doesn't seem to bad to me. What seems crazy is even having a President.
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Not even in jest?
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