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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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Precedence: Junk
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I am tired of spam. Usenet spamming has rendered
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that formerly animated and interesting discussion forum
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close to useless. E-Mail spamming has transformed the act
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of checking for new mail from an enjoyable activity into
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an exercise in irritation. Chat spamming has turned into an
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intrusive and constant source of harassment. Essentially,
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all forms of real-time or near real-time interaction on
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the Internet have turned into spam turf, where the user
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is forced to use their software to somehow filter out or
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ignore as much of the abuse as possible.
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There are stages of spam irritation. After your
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web site goes up, or you hop onto IRC, or you post an
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article on Usenet, spam starts trickling in. At first there
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are a few pieces a week, which most new spamees simply
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send to the bit bucket without fluttering an eyelid.
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Not a big deal. Then the spam begins to increase until
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you are receiving a piece or two a day. You begin to
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notice some of the spammers' more annoying tactics -
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mail with subject lines like "about that information you
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requested..." or "loved your web site!" that force you
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to actually read the first few lines before you realize
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that this is nothing more than junk mail. Anger begins
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to surge within you over the fake return addresses and
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misleading subject lines. You whip out your dusty mail
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filtering software and start trying to avoid reading the
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spam. Soon you realize that you can't win with filtering
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software - spammers change domains, source addresses,
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headers, and content daily if necessary. You change your
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e-mail address to joe+spambites@domain.com for all Usenet
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posts and web sites, but it's too late - they already have
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your real address. By now your spam has swelled to 60%
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of your daily incoming mail. You learn to read headers
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and start sending spam complaints to postmasters, root,
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and the Federal Trade Commission. The spam continues to
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mount. Then you realize that you are spending up to an
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hour a day dealing with spam complaints, filtering, and
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modifying your e-mail address and decide that all this
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headache is just not worth it. Back to grudging deletion,
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right where you started. It's a circle, and Internet users
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just can't win with the tools that are currently available.
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That said, I don't think that spam necessarily
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needs to stop. Spam, UCE, bulk e-mail, or whatever it
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is called, should go on as a method of communicating with
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potential customers on the Internet in much the same way
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junk snail mail continues. In it's current form, however,
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most spamming makes me want to personally draw and quarter
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the asshole on the other end of it. If only these jerks
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would take a hint from junk mailers they might actually
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get *more* customers. There are a few reasons why I don't
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mind standing at my mail box with the trash can next to
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me while I sort through junk mail.
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First of all, I do not directly bear the entire
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cost of receiving junk snail mail. I get it, I throw
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it in the trash if I am not interested. I feel a small
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amount of satisfaction because that junk mailer had to
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give the USPS money to send the mail. They had to pay for
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paper. They had to pay someone to design and print the
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catalog/brochure/flyer. All I had to do was throw it away
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and send a check to my trash removal service. Fine with
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me. Spammers, on the other hand, make my ISP store their
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crap on their hard drives, pay their upstream provider
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for eaten bandwidth, and dole out salaries to the support
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people that have to deal with spam complaints. Then the ISP
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has to charge me more to cover their costs. Even worse,
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some users still actually have to pay hourly rates for
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time spent online - time spent downloading junk mail. All
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the spammer has to do is get a 14 dollar a month Internet
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account, write the e-mail, and send it. This is not a
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reasonable relationship - the business should have to work
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harder and spend more money than the potential customer
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to get new business. Period.
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Secondly, I am usually getting junk mail because
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I have been targeted in some way. The ratio of junk snail
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mail I get that is pertinent to me is good - about 80% of
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the junk snail mail I receive a day is in some way related
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to my profession, hobbies, or interests. Sometimes I
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actually buy things, sign up for subscriptions, or in some
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way acknowledge those offers because it is obvious that
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the junk mailer has done some research into my demographic
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and attempted to send me something that I would actually
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care about. Therefore, I am obviously more likely to
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buy into whatever it is that they are selling. Not so
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with spammers. I hate spam - why would I want to buy a CD
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with 50 million e-mail addresses on it? I could care less
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about child porn. Why then would a spammer ask that I pay
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20 bucks a month to view it? Which brings me to another
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point. Snail mail cannot contain illegal or fraudulent
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offers - it brings on heavy penalties. Most spam is
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fraught with this sort of crap, which makes all UCE look
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bad. (Hint to legitimate companies - fight against these
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people, or the stuff you send will be illegal, too.) I have
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a tip for all you spammers - do you want to get a better
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return on your spams? Target, target, target. Pissing a
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bunch of people off who could care less about buying your
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golf balls only hurts your reputation and makes it harder
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for you send mail in the future. Get a fuckin' clue.
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If I absolutely hate the junk snail mail I am
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receiving, I can usually find a legitimate return address
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to complain to. In a lot of cases I have actually been
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thanked for asking to be removed from a mailing list -
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many junk mailers would prefer not to waste money on
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customers who will never buy anything from them. Spammers
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have turned the process of hiding themselves into an
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art. Forged headers, false return addresses, untraceable
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phone numbers, and P.O. box addresses all make it more
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than difficult to get off their lists. They don't care if
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you don't want their XXX pics or credit cleaning scams. Yet
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they mysteriously want you to send them money. I don't know
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about you, but I would *never* do business with a company
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that doesn't care about me in the first place. That is why
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I, after over two thousand spams received, I have *yet*
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to purchase anything from a single one of these assholes.
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It all comes down to one thing. Spammers have
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pissed off the Internet as a whole and have probably
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ruined the chances of UCE ever getting a good name. It's
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too bad. If I fill out a survey at 3com and give them my
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e-mail address and demographic info, chances are I will
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never see a single piece of UCE they send me because my
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filter already threw their mail into the bit bucket before
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it had the chance to slide past my eyeballs. And I might
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have bought something, too.
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demonika
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demonika+fuck@demonic.com
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= Questions, Comments, Bitches, Ideas, Rants, Death Threats, Submissions =
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= WWW *** http://www.sekurity.org/~fuck *** =
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= http://www.dimensional.com/~jericho =
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= http://www.reps.net/~krypt/fuck.html =
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= http://www.simunye.com/fuck =
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