You'd think I'd have to go and make up this sort of stuff, but you're wrong. These little nuggets of examples of why inbreeding is a bad thing just end up getting sent to me. Honestly, one can't make this sort of stuff up, and I'm including full email headers to prove it.
Through the miracles of modern technology, the internet, TCP/IP, wide area networking, and random idiots running around trying to cause trouble, Studio42 is able to bring you a prime example of what sort of mind-set enjoys spam, sends spam, and is a fan of spam. This is a rare look into the mind of a spammer. After reading this, you'll support abortion, retro-active abortion, birth control, human sterilization, euthenasia, the death penalty, and man's basic right to beat the crap out of people that annoy him.
Return-Path: <alan@senora.demon.co.uk> Received: from home.glasscity.net (home.glasscity.net [208.13.0.1]) by tomcat.ns.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA03859 for <cpicket@tomcat.ns.net>; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 18:02:16 -0800 (PST) From: alan@senora.demon.co.uk Received: from home.glasscity.net (194.72.198.24) by home.glasscity.net (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.81) with SMTP id <B0000772788@home.glasscity.net>; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 21:02:10 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 21:02:10 -0500 Message-ID: <B0000772788@home.glasscity.net> Subject: Dear spam hater. X-UIDL: 23485792837498720384760912734067 Priority: normal Status: MU X-Flags: PXU2-4R65-2264:R Apparently-To: <anon@anon.net> Subject: Dear spam hater. Sent: 02/21/1997 18:02 Received: 02/21/1997 18:03 From: alan@senora.demon.co.uk HA HA HA HA You are on a published list of peolple who hate commercial mail! How STUPID can you get! Commercial email is just taking off - and I'm going to distribute this list everywhere I can to shut you whining people with nothing better to do than complain up! It's BASTARDS like you who got me shut down last time - but demon won't touch me! HA HA HA! I can go thru DIFFERENT servers! ANYTIME........... Alan the Infowarrior 'Let me read your palm!' -- Alan K Baker (MailWurliTzer Willy) www.senora.demon.co.uk alan@senora.demon.co.uk PS glasscity.net are not responsible for this.........
Let's break it down into it's essential elements. My commentary will be in blue, should your web browser support colors. Just in case, I've made them BOLD too. Subject: Dear spam hater. Sent: 02/21/1997 18:02 Received: 02/21/1997 18:03 From: alan@senora.demon.co.uk HA HA HA HA Yeah, the stupid people are easily amused. You are on a published list of peolple who hate commercial mail! This is actually a useful thing. This makes it easier for me to justify my billing of those who spam me, as according to this action, they are notified of my views on this practice, and therefore, by sending spam, they accept the terms and conditions of this action. Thanks dude! How STUPID can you get! Commercial email is just taking off - and I'm going to distribute this list everywhere How stupid can this person get? Sure, commercial email is taking off, and being shut down as quickly as it takes off. But, by doing me the favor of distributing this list of people who hate spam, you help me spread the word that I hate spam and therefore make it easier for me to collect on bills sent to spammers. Again, thank you. Why should I even have to register my anti-spam pages on search engines when I can have a knuckle-dragging mouth-breather such as yourself do my notification for me? I can to shut you whining people with nothing better to do than complain up! Go for it dude. I'll just throw a mail filter on your address and be done with you. It's BASTARDS like you who got me shut down last time - but demon won't touch me! HA HA HA! Oh, so what you're saying is you make a habit out of spammming and harrassing and terrorizing others. What's wrong, did mommy not spend enough time with you during those formative years? I can go thru DIFFERENT servers! ANYTIME........... There's a big difference between getting kicked off of servers vs. changing servers. Hey, I can go through different servers too, anytime. Hell, I even have my own damn mail server, so I can really mess you up. Alan the Infowarrior 'Let me read your palm!' -- Alan K Baker (MailWurliTzer Willy) www.senora.demon.co.uk alan@senora.demon.co.uk PS glasscity.net are not responsible for this......... Sure, but you are, and so are they for providing the facilities to let you harrass and terrorize others. Therefore, they have the right to be alerted to your activities and shut you down. Can't you see how anti-productive your actions are?
Obviously this idiot of exceptionally low intellect is trying to get into my "Deadbeats' Hall of Lame" with this little gem of stupidity. While it didn't meet his actual goals, it does end up here. I think the little "description" after his name is pretty much self-explanatory for this individual. Obviously he spends too much time playing with his organ(he said "organ", heh heh, heh heh). Let your smutty little minds run amuck, I'm sure this idividual has no musical talents.
Return-Path: <alan@senora.demon.co.uk> Received: from home.glasscity.net (home.glasscity.net [208.13.0.1]) by tomcat.ns.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA06249 for <cpicket@tomcat.ns.net>; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 17:59:24 -0800 (PST) From: alan@senora.demon.co.uk Received: from home.glasscity.net (194.72.197.182) by home.glasscity.net (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.81) with SMTP id <B0000780235@home.glasscity.net>; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 20:59:20 -0500 Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 20:59:20 -0500 Message-ID: <B0000780235@home.glasscity.net> Subject: Free Baboon's nasal hair! X-Flags: D6K7-7G65-8515:R Apparently-To: <not@home.com> Subject: Free Baboon's nasal hair! Sent: 02/22/1997 17:59 Received: 02/23/1997 00:47 From: alan@senora.demon.co.uk For a limited period we at www.senora.demon.co.uk are giving away free Baboon's nasal hair! Alan (WuRlItZeRwAnKeR) www.senora.demon.co.uk email: alan@senora.demon.uk Holdmedown! Gutteger-rimticker hootsnort! %noddysod-biddy-offgrommet
You've now witnessed the inner-workings of the, and I use this term loosely, mind of a spammer. You now know the typical mentality of spammers and you can see why they tend to be difficult to stop. If only daddy wore a condom....
Now that we've skimmed the surface, let's give this waste of air the full-on spammer treatment. >whois glasscity.net GlassNet Communications (GLASSCITY-DOM) 4218 Airport Hwy Toledo, OH 43615-7009 Domain Name: GLASSCITY.NET Administrative Contact: Myers, Todd B. (TBM2) tmyers@GLASSCITY.NET (419)382-6800 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Krabach, Brian (BK234) krabach@GLASSCITY.NET 419-382-6800 Record last updated on 03-Feb-97. Record created on 31-May-95. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.GLASSCITY.NET 208.13.0.1 NS1.SPRINTLINK.NET 204.117.214.10 NS2.SPRINTLINK.NET 199.2.252.10 NS3.SPRINTLINK.NET 204.97.212.10 WOW! Let's involve Sprintlink into this. They hate spam going through their network! Let's check out the mail server: >telnet telnet> open 208.13.0.1 25 Trying 208.13.0.1... Connected to 208.13.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. 220 home.glasscity.net IMS SMTP Receiver Version 0.81 Ready vrfy alan@senora.demon.co.uk 252 User not local, but will relay Well, now we know why "glasscity.net" won't do anything, because they are simply mail relaying. Still, they have a right to know what sort of trash goes through their network. Let's dig deeper, shall we? 194.222.51.237 is resolved to this DNS entry: senora.demon.co.uk Had to do a trace route. Found "demon.net". Lots of LOST packets. >whois demon.net Demon Systems Limited (DEMON-DOM) 322 Regents Park Road Finchley London, N3 2QQ ENGLAND Domain Name: DEMON.NET Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Demon Internet Hostmaster (DEMON-HM) hostmaster@DEMON.NET +44-181-371-1250 Fax: +44-181-371-1165 Record last updated on 03-Jan-97. Record created on 21-Dec-92. Domain servers in listed order: NS0.DEMON.CO.UK 158.152.1.65 NS1.DEMON.CO.UK 158.152.1.193 NS2.DEMON.NET 192.68.174.95 Damn, still can't locate the mail server. But, having my own mail server certainly helps. I can't provide a transcript, but I did find out that email to this little pathetic excuse for life goes to: relay-5.mail.demon.net, 194.217.242.1 Now, time to hit that address via telnet. Let's see what happens: >telnet telnet> open 194.217.242.1 25 Trying 194.217.242.1... Connected to 194.217.242.1. Escape character is '^]'. 220 relay-5.mail.demon.net Server SMTP (Complaints/bugs to: postmaster@demon.net) vrfy alan 550 (USER) Unknown user name in "alan" vrfy alan@senora.demon.co.uk 250 Nice address <alan@senora.demon.co.uk> vrfy postmaster 250 Nice address <postmaster@relay-5.mail.demon.net> vrfy alan 550 (USER) Unknown user name in "alan" Well, I can verify the address, and who to complain to. Time to start following up.