Subject:     Quick Cash
Sent:        04/21/1997 02:03 AM
Received:    04/21/1997 07:19 AM
From:        "", @cldc.Howard.edu
To:          Chris Pickett, cpicket@ns.net

See the spam

Gee, another multi level marketing plan, AKA PYRAMID SCAM! I mean, what is it
with stupid people? Do they not pay attention? And how do these damn idiots
get mailing lists to scam people from?

To top it off, the address is not valid, but it does come from that mail server,
although that mail server won't recieve any mail. Check the headers in the spam
so you can witness for yourself. Also note that the idiot mailed HTML, assuming
that since he is so stupid and can only use the Netscape emailer, that everyone
else must want HTML email spam sent to them as well. To top matter off, the
administration of the school has chosen to not only allow, but encourange this
sort of illegal behavior, siting that junk mail is not illegal. Folks, by filling
out a few simple forms, you can make sending you junk mail an illegal act.

Then, the "hotmail.com" address is either an invalid, forged or fictional. In
other words: it doesn't work. Nothing against "hotmail.com" in general, but
they are being used as an unfortunate middle-man in the spam industry. These
accounts are free, and are most likely being treated as throw-away accounts
for some short term spamming. The more complaints "hotmail.com" gets, the
sooner they will crack down on this behavior. I'm not suggesting an email
campaign to "hotmail.com", just report those spams you see that mention
"hotmail.com" addresses and make sure those folks see the spam and your
complaint.

Oh, and check out the crappy HTML code. I would shoot myself if I wasted my time
on creating something that horrible. Not only that, but the idiot makes it totally
obvious the he either stole or authored the spam himself and that it's residing on
a floppy disk. Chances are he authored this at his dorm between wank sessions, and
then took the disk to the computer lab to polute the internet in a more efficient
manner.

UPDATE 4/21/97

Looks like being an head strong opponent to spam pays off. Someone who I would
assume is in an administrative position has had a change of heart and claims
that this will be looked into. This is the same person who replied earlier.
This person at least acknowledges there is a problem and is aware of it. See,
some people can be useful when properly motivated. It's nice to see a provider
taking that extra effort to squash spammers.

Subject:     IBM TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE 
Sent:        04/25/1997 03:51 AM
Received:    04/25/1997 06:19 AM
From:        sbforums@boomerang.com
To:          Chris Pickett, cpicket@ns.net

See the spam
It opens simply:

Five Days That Will Change Your Future

It should say: 5 seconds that will land my ass in serious trouble. Gee, between
IBM's major advertising campaign, you'd think they wouldn't need some stupid
spammer trying to deluge people with unwanted spam. Yeah, like I'm suddenly
going to hop onto a plane LAST MINUTE to go to some expo I don't care about.

So, call the supposed morons hyping this little show at: 1-800-872-7109

More information. This is a short one. It is 6AM and I am still not all the way
awake. Nothing better than starting your day off with spam crap.

See the look-ups

Subject:     hi sweetie 
Sent:        4/25/97 20:42
Received:    4/26/97 05:33
From:        bambi@mail.vdocam.com, bambi@vdocam.com
To:          bambi@vdocam.com

See the spam

Yet more porno spam. Just what I didn't want. But, it's short, probably due
to the one-handed typing.

What I want to know is how the hell do I get on these damn lists? I sure as
hell am NOT signing up for them, so why the hell do I keep getting this
garbage in my email box?

You know, these spams are probably coming from disfigured over-weight men
who have nothing else to do other than "strengthen and tone their wrist and
hand muscles".  I hope 88 "REMOVE" messages help get my point across. Nothing
better than waking up in the morning, checking my email, and finding some
lame-ass spammer sent a porn ad to my WORK address. Due to mail forwarding, now
I have to GO to the office to get the spam and the headers, as the
forwarding does not forward the headers. Then I have to take the time out of my
busy schedule of working on web pages for other customers to author these pages.

I'll investigate this one later on when I have more time.

Subject:     WORLD'S GREATEST ADULT SITES!!
Sent:        5/2/97 07:54
Received:    5/2/97 12:39
From:        y.r.u@lkjsdifrtjk.com
Reply-To:    lkasjd@aol.com
To:          lksjdfl@aol.com

See the spam


Yes, you guessed it. Forged addresses plugging a porn site. In fact, a whole
host of porno sites. Rather long ad for an Asian-porno site. Where the hell
are they getting my address from? This bounces all over the place, lots of
bad stuff going on, lots of DNS host errors, all sorts of nifty bad stuff.

So, I'll just send a bill for $500 to:
>whois asianhq.com
JK Publications (ASIANHQ-DOM)
   3305 W Spring Mountain Rd., Suite #60A
   Las Vegas, NV 89102
   US

Subject:     saw your e-mail address
Sent:        5/6/97 21:46
Received:    5/6/97 22:56
From:        Andy Burgess, wsite@Website-Plus.com

See the spam

He was just cruising the web and saw an email address, and so naturally,
being the retarded spammer that he is, figured we'd enjoy being annoyed
at the Los Altos Networks information account. Let's take a closer look:
Los Altos Networks has TWO domains: lanets.com and lan.net
This retard is trying to sell web space. Hmm, seems we have plenty
of that already.

Now he wants to know what I think. I think he's screwed in the head.
I expect I'll be seeing more from this idiot in the future.

Subject:     Hottest Thing On The Internet Today!
Sent:        5/11/97 6:36 PM
Received:    5/12/97 7:57 AM
From:        vidsex@bigfoot.com
To:          Friend@public.com

See the spam

Nothing like waking up, checking email and finding out I have been spammed.
Just for the record, this is a very bad thing to do to me. I may have to
spend a portion of my day slamming this idiot spamming via Prodigy. Currently
the spam at work was forwarded to me to another account that I have. Why is
it that porno-pushers think they are so special that they don't need to worry
about rules regarding spam?

Oh, I love the line where the idiot is saying that if I don't want to recieve
future mailings then do nothing and I will not be placed on a list. Hmmm, I
must have been on a list in the first place otherwise I would not have been
spammed. What a moron.

Oh boy, let me call the United Kingdom for some dirty-talk that I don't want.

But let's not forget the spam I also got at work. Apparently this is before
this little idiot figured out how to falsify their email address:

Subject:     Hottest Thing On The Internet Today!
Sent:        5/11/97 20:51
Received:    5/12/97 02:33
From:        capthoek@prodigy.net
To:          Friend@public.com

See the spam

To: postmaster@softcell.net
Date: Mon, 12 May 97 16:22:26 EST
From: mailbox@softcell.net
Subject: Target Email Distribution Lists
Reply-To: mailbox@softcell.net

See the spam

Notice the different format above. That is because I was spammed on my domain
and I use Eudora to check MY mail server that resides on MY machine.

This person wants me to forward this to the person who is in charge of my
online marketing. Hmmm, that would be.... ME! Oh, but this is spam, so who
should I complain to? I should complain to my system administrator, and that
is... ME! This means I can yell, blast and be as rude as I want to this worthless
sack and not only get away with it, it is fully condoned! I find profanity,
rudeness and being just plain crude is so much better than yelling "Get Bent"
and walking away.I mean, who is this jerk-off going to complain to, my postmaster?
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Then I can yell at the spammer again for complaining. Man, sometimes
I even amuse myself with my evil genius!

Isn't being a System Administrator fun? You know what they say:
Power corrupts, but absolute power is pretty cool

Actually, I don't like the term "SysAdmin", I personally prefer:
"Grand Almightly Omnipotent Grand Exhalted Dictator for Life of Studio42"
but it costs too much to print all that on a business card.

I think we all know which company will soon have their own special page or
pages in the Deadbeats' Hall of Lame.

Subject:     CAN'T SLEEP?
Sent:        5/5/97 14:39
Received:    5/15/97 22:14
From:        sleep@sprimt.com
To:          sleep@sprimt.com

See the spam

Oddly enough, I have been having problems sleeping, but now I am tired
and ANGRY and will take out all my sleep-deprived rage out on this damn
spammer, especially since the idiot spammed me at work.

Of course, for the sake of them stealing money more effectively, they want
direct access to your bank account. Wow, talk about highly illegal!

Call these idiots direct and collect at: 1-708-755-5101, and be sure to have
an operator assist you. Remember, since we're so tired, we wouldn't want to
accidentally dial a wrong number. Or fax them some obscenities to:
1-708-442-6278

Of course, invoicing these idiots will be easy:
Sheehan & Associates
106 W. Calendar Court
Suite # 222
Lagrange, IL 60525 USA
Attn. Order Dept. 

The final lines are the clincher:
-------------------------------------------------------------
If you prefer not to reveive any e-mail from us in the future,
please send a new e-mail message to: remove3@answerme.com, 
and you will be promptly removed from our database. Thank you. 
-------------------------------------------------------------

CyberPromo. Need I say more? I think I may have to move this to the CyberPromo page.
Not only that, but BAD HTML code and the color on a white or even grey background
is hard to read. See for yourself the example of bad coding.

Subject: Abbey Green
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 10:41:00 -0700 (MST)
From: ireland@abbeygreen.com
Message-Id: <199705201741.KAA15571@in1.doitnow.com>
To: spam-hater@studio42.com

See the spam

Well, apparently this little dork opened up a web site, and decided that
a spam hater would be a perfect person to send spam to. Notice WHO they
sent the email to, "spam-hater@studio42.com". Talk about being a bunch
of clueless idiots. They want my suggestions, so I suggested in full
explicit detail what sort of perverted acts they could perform on themselves.
I certainly hope they complain to the postmaster, so I can yell at them some
more.

But why stop there? Time to investigate. I'm fairly sure I've seen this domain
before. Let's see if I'm right:

See the look-ups

Subject:     "How to E-X-P-0-S-E Infidelity" . . .
Sent:        5/24/97 10:49
Received:    5/24/97 11:00
From:        Staff@ExposeInfidelity.com
To:          requestor@site.com

See the spam

Hmm, apparently I'm married or seeing someone, and they are cheating on me.
Well, personally I'd be happy to be married or seeing someone, but the simple
fact is that this message is spam, and regardless of my marital or social
status, I hate spam. To try and avoid flaming, it spammed me at my WORK account
over the weekend. I had to swing by my office to pick up a ZIP cartridge, so
I figured I'd do a quick email check, and this is what came in.

This guy makes false claims to his employment and responsibilities, along with
14K of other non-sequiter crap that says to me one thing:
This person is not just a spammer, it's a lying sack of crap to boot.

14K of crap. Most spammers can lay out their lies in a 2K message, so this idiot
is a larger spammer than most, at least as far as wasting bandwidth is concerned.
You would think these people would learn to not spam, but I guess that is just
too much to ask or hope for.

No point in doing the full spammer treatment, since Mr. Security can't even
figure out how to hide where it came from. Another Earthlink abuser. Most
likely this is a trial throw-away account. As much as I hate all of the
national internet service providers, and the commercial service providers, I
really hate seeing their services abused by this sort of behavior.

As usual, I don't bother reading the entire spam, I can usually spot them from
the first few lines.

Sorry for the change in format. Claris has done some IDIOTIC things with their new
Claris Emailer 2.0, aside from charging existing users full retail for what is an
upgrade in their case.
Subject: Mysteries of the Bible - Live on Tuesdays on the Web
Date:        05/28  6:36 PM
Received:    05/28  9:11 PM
From:        45887272@microsoft.com
Reply-To:    bible@primesolution.com
To:          scholar@archaeology.com

See the spam

As a practicing(or that non-practicing) atheist, I'm rather intolerant of bible
rhetoric and religious crap in my email box. It could be those nuns who kicked
my ass in kindergarten, or the constant bible bashing in high school. Regardless,
I've chosen to swear off organized and disorganized religion. Since I'm rather fond
of having genitalia, I don't have to worry about joining a cult.

Educational, my ass! I'm not going to sit through this crap, nor will I tolerate
some idiot sending this garbage into my email box. At least with the TV, I have
the option of changing the channel to avoid this, but when it hits my email box, it
takes up space on my hard drive, time to download it and the time to process it.

If you are one of the dilweeds who sent me unsolicited email or are someone thinking about it, drop dead.
Also, if you've got a complaint about my anti-spam feelings or want to scold me for being justifiably sick of spam, I have the following words of wisdom for you:

YOU'VE COME TO THE WRONG PLACE!