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   SPAM spoofed e-mails

   

   Agent Orange, Apr 18th, 2003 @ 1:03pm

   
   

   Yes, they are being spammed and sent out to harass people. Some people seem to delight in this practice - simply because they disagree with you. Sad to say that this nation is so passive-aggressive that it cannot stand up on its own feet and say what they believe. Instead, spammers are weenies, they use a system to cause pain without ever doing anything other than being an annoyance. No guts if you ask me. No intestinal fortitude at all. Simply weak-willed weenies.
   If I have a problem with something that a person says, I can either choose to talk to them or ignore it. I will go straight to the source, and express my opinion. I don't think this sort of attack has any honor in it at all. Think of it like the Iraqis fighting the troops who held up children for human shields. The spmmer is holding you up as their shield because they want to cause havoc, but lack any real bravery or courage.
   Such actions invite bad kharma - and it will be repaid, the universe will demand a just balance.

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   Chris, Apr 18th, 2003 @ 1:12pm

   
   

   I guess I'm still waiting for my 15 minutes of fame :) I might need a lesson on being quoteable! Actually, a lot of what I said to him contradicts some of the other quotes he used - so its no surprise he didn't use anything from me. I had no personal negetive reprecussions from the spoofing, and I quickly set up a filter to delete most of the bounces at the server before I even saw them. I also told him that PGP was not a solution because people don't use it, and I don't expect digital signatures to become commonplace anytime soon.

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   Mike (profile), Apr 18th, 2003 @ 1:52pm

   
   

   Heh. I actually told him similar stuff, which is why it appears he didn't use most of what I told him. I said that any solution like PGP that requires people to figure it out isn't going to go over well... It looks like (like many reporters) he took the quotes that made the argument he was trying to make and just went with that.

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