Received the following email today, names and address removed to protect > the guilty.
> ******
> BulletProof server:
> Fresh IPs
> 1024MB RAM
> P4 CPU
> 72GB SCSI
> Dedicated 100M fiber
> Unlimited Data Transfer
> Any software
> Based in China
> US$599.00 for per month
> May use the server for:
> Bulk Hosting
> Direct Mailing
> We also supply Target list according to your
> order and sending out your message for you.
> *****
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I've been thinking I should write a
> note to those people and ask them how many netters take them up on
> their offer to 'rent their server' for direct mail purposes. If
> they can get $599 per customer/month it would pay me to discontinue
> this Digest and turn my computer totally into a 'bullet proof' direct
> spam -- err, I mean, mail server. Even just one customer per month
> would pay off better for me than this Digest does at $599 each. PAT]
Problem is we know where you live and what you look like. Remember the guy is Russia!!!!
The only good spammer is a dead one!! Have you hunted one down today? (c) 2005 I Kill Spammers, Inc. A Rot in Hell Co.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: That you do know about me. I still do not understand why ICANN does not do a re-alignment of the general domain naming system, to put things more in line with where they really are: Suggested TLDs would be '.sex, .scam,' and '.spam' to make a full transition to the kind of internet Vint Cerf and Esther Dyson have always dreamed of having. PAT]