When Good Spammers Go Bad 305
pfleming writes "According to this blog article on BadTux by Eric Green, the constant harrassment of spammers has a price. You get a Cease and Desist letter- or more correctly, your ISP gets a C/D letter. But, if you're a hard core geek you just might get your site more notice as it gets mirrored out onto sympathetic hosts.
Also mirrored in other locations."
Re:better mirror that geocities page (Score:5, Funny)
Good spammers? (Score:2, Funny)
Damn, the trolls are busy this morning.
The irony wasn't lost on me (Score:3, Funny)
Immaturity in the OSS community? (Score:3, Funny)
When what now? (Score:5, Funny)
Logically, the only good spammer, is a dead spammer.
Therefore, all good spammers are past their experation date already.
So logically, all good spammers must be bad.
Re:better mirror that geocities page (Score:2, Funny)
When Good Stories Go Down (Score:5, Funny)
vaderhelmet writes "According to this server error on BadTux by the webserver, the constant loading of pages has a price. You get a 425 error- or more correctly, you cannot connect to the host. But, if you're a hard core geek you just might get your site more notice as it gets mirrored out onto sympathetic hosts. Also slashdotted in other locations."
Errr, Like Linux? (Score:5, Funny)
Erm, you mean like Microsoft Bad, Linux Good?
Blockwars [blockwars.com]: multiplayer and it's free!
Wouldn't it be nice... (Score:5, Funny)
... if someone wrote a nice piece of mass mailing software that would be free, look great, run fast, spam people like there's no tomorrow and available under a "free but get your paws of my source code" license? I mean, we don't want the spammers to be able to realize that their latest toy doesn't actually send anything and has more backdoors then a Win95 alpha version, now do we? And it automagically has to hook up to a webcam if available, so we can have a laugh as a spammer realizes all his computers are now hosting illegal crap like Britney/Nsync/Linkin Park MP3s, various bad Disney animations as MPGs and files like "SCO_Unixware_kernel.tar.gz" while a RIAA/MPAA APC drives his/her front window!
Bonus points if said program makes a AYB quote the moment the spammer is sued into the nine hells themselves!
Re:Lies! (Score:5, Funny)
To paraphrase Starship Troopers:
new error page (Score:5, Funny)
"Slashdotted!
Not available at the moment due to the Slashdot Effect. Will be back shortly as a (much faster) static page. Thank you for your patience."
So should this be a new error message? I'm thinking 501 - Slashdot...
When good Spammers go bad? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It was going ok. (Score:5, Funny)
Wrong! (Score:4, Funny)
--NJ state court judge, on acquitting Allen Ginsburg of smoking pot in a newspaper quote.
On that note, I shot five people last night. Sorry to everyone affected.
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Hilarious Lawyer's Demand Letter (Score:1, Funny)
What good reputation?
Re:When what now? (Score:4, Funny)
This is disappointing (Score:3, Funny)
Welcome to the WWWF (Score:3, Funny)
In the red corner we have a shrill and somewhat incoherent geek with time to waste (and apparently more interested in getting even than getting a job).
Both parties tend to long self-justified rants. We feel sympathy for the red corner because he seems to be motivated by morals rather than money. But wait... he just wants his reputation restored, does not care whether people are ripped off by the product.
The blue corner are obviously the Bad Boys, the tag team of hate. They like shouting at the crowd more than actually getting down to business. We don't know quite what they're shouting about, but frankly, we can't wait for Red Boy to jump into the ring and smash their stupid heads against the ropes.
Only Red Boy seems to lying unconscious on the floor... it's a Knock Out!!! The Slashdot crowd - all ten million of them - have jumped into the ring and are smashing the ref, the Tag Team of Hate, and Red Boy with anything they can get hold of: chairs, empty drink cans,...
Later, order returns to the scene. The ref announces a draw, and everyone asks "what the heck was that about?" No-one seems to know, but one of the bikini-clad girls holding the score signs thinks that whatever it was, it wasn't worth breaking a nail over. She looks at her hand glumly.
I mean... Jesus!!
Re:My own list of spammers... [opt-out] (Score:3, Funny)
me too (Score:2, Funny)
while [ 1 ] /dev/null 2>& 1
do
wget --user-agent='SpammerFucker' -O - "$1" >
done
with the spammer's URL as paramater.
already taken (Score:5, Funny)
500 Internal Server Error
You'd have to start at at least 506 - but then that might be used by later http implementations501 Not Implemented
502 Bad Gateway
503 Service Unavailable
504 Gateway Timeout
505 HTTP Version not supported
better to just add a new block of response codes:
600 Server Slashdotted
601 Databaser fried
602 Redirect to Google Cache
603 Redirect to Goatse.cx
604 Random error from 4xx/5xx code
605 Cowboy Neal
Or just use the HTTP response that I seem to get a lot when viewing slashdot:
417 Expectation Failed
.02
cLive ;-)
Re:Oh my god (Score:1, Funny)
Oh nos! Someone stoled my megahurtz!
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