More important than the war against terrorism

[Stag 0]

...The war against Spam! Get over here lock 'n load, and filter out the crap that interferes with your reception of unsolicited pornography!

Anti Spam software

Does this post come under the definition of Spam?

[TaNK_Em 0]

Peoples life are more importent then fucking anti spam software if we dont fight the terroist they will strike again and kill

[Stag 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (TaNK_Em @ Oct. 31 2002,03:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Peoples life are more importent then fucking anti spam software if we dont fight the terroist they will strike again and kill<span id='postcolor'>

I refer you to Ed Kroenaur's parting comment to Sergeant-Major Dickerson.

[Supah 0]

Spam is more destabilzing for the internet then terrorism. It eats up resources ... both human and machine. Imagine how life would be if internet would stop working? we have come dependant on it. Ill bet you if there were no more spam the internet would improve in speed by 5 - 10 %. Wouldnt that be great?

[Balschoiw 0]

Yes but take this forum for example. Don´t you think some spamomatic answers do tell something about the persons you are talking with ? If there was no personal attitude sometimes expressed in "not exactly to the topic" answers, we woldnt know very much about the other guys here. If I want spamfree literature I read a book on science. But spam is part of all day around. Certainly I hate spam-mails, tricking websites and all that stuff. But if you are really nerved you can do something against it. In forums I like to see that even mod´s have a personality ,wich they sometimes express with some "a bit offtopic" answers. If you stay hard to the line it is spam. Or anyone knows how spam is defined the right way ?

[Supah 0]

Those are offtopic replies. Spam in the strictest sense of the word stands for unasked for commercial messages sent either through email or other means (Havent we all seen the natural penis enlargement popup once or twice in our live?)

[KingBeast 0]

"pop up" being a wise/foolish choice of words in that case

[iNeo 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Balschoiw @ Nov. 01 2002,01:21)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Yes but take this forum for example. Don´t you think some spamomatic answers do tell something about the persons you are talking with ? If there was no personal attitude sometimes expressed in "not exactly to the topic" answers, we woldnt know very much about the other guys here. If I want spamfree literature I read a book on science. But spam is part of all day around. Certainly I hate spam-mails, tricking websites and all that stuff. But if you are really nerved you can do something against it. In forums I like to see that even mod´s have a personality     ,wich they sometimes express with some "a bit offtopic" answers. If you stay hard to the line it is spam. Or anyone knows how spam is defined the right way ?<span id='postcolor'>

Such spam is ok, but not spam into personal e-mail accounts etc, spam via e-mail sucks really.

[iNeo 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (supah @ Nov. 01 2002,01:35)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">(Havent we all seen the natural penis enlargement popup once or twice in our live?)<span id='postcolor'>

Get that pretty often in the form of an e-mail, Hotmail you know...

[Tovarish 0]

About a year ago I let my little sister use my hotmail account to sign up for something online. I'm positive whatever it was it was "clean" because I watched her do it...though I can't remember what the hell it was...anyways now I'm getting all these porn e-mails directed towards her!

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (TaNK_Em @ Nov. 01 2002,00:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Peoples life are more importent then fucking anti spam software if we dont fight the terroist they will strike again and kill<span id='postcolor'>

Watch yer attitude kid, be gentle with each other.

[Warin 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tovarish @ Nov. 01 2002,02:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">About a year ago I let my little sister use my hotmail account to sign up for something online. I'm positive whatever it was it was "clean" because I watched her do it...though I can't remember what the hell it was...anyways now I'm getting all these porn e-mails directed towards her!        <span id='postcolor'>

What likely happened is that whomever she signed up with turned around and sold their email list to a third party who then pimped it out to anyone who wanted it. It's amazing what some companies will do ot make money

[fraggit 0]

Yeah what the hell is up with hotmail? I get my account spammed out to the limit with them and the notorious penis and breast enlargement spam. But with Yahoo I don't get any of that shit.

[Major Fubar 0]

Hotmail is the worst offender for spam. I've had hotmail accounts which I didn't use to sign up for anything, and still got porn spam.

My pet hate, more than spam email, is popups, and, worst of all, sites that add stuff to your favourites and reset your homepage.

I am very careful what I click on, so AFAIK, I'm not clicking to add anything to my favourites or set my homepage. Strangely enough, the homepage it keeps getting reset to is Yahoo.