SPAM levels back up

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 11:39 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
> >David Bandel wrote:
> >> Folks,
> >> 
> >> Well, I see my 30-day SPAM directory on Google (which dropped to a low
> >> of about 800 15 days ago) has climbed to over 1500.  Today it reached
> >> an all-time high and shows no signs of backing down.
> >> 
> >> I'm willing to bet if we could convince the unwashed masses to use
> >> Linux (or frankly, anything but M$ crap) we'd drop to an all-time low.
> >>  Figure the odds.
> >
> >http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/technology/06spam.html?ex=1323061200&en=d2c6bcfd3354cbaf&ei=5088partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
> >
> >I'm getting a lot of these images-as-text spam lately. Mostly some crook 
> >hyping some worthless stock. They go right past Thunderbird's filters.
> 
> The spamassassin bayesian filters pick up the vast majority of
> these here.  We also have some sites running fuzzyocr with SA
> although I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
> 
> I do see a fair number of these in my totally unfiltered
> postmaster and security mail folders, but that's to be expected.

OK, I got the answer and it will take everyone to pull this off. Pres.
Bush is taking a sound beating. Iraq is killing him in the polls. I got
this solution to make him the most favorite President we have ever had.

Simply declare the Spammers as enemy combatants who seek to disrupt
Freedom, Mom, Apple Pie and "Polite Society" at large. Click on the
CRM114 Discriminator and the klaxons in the compound. Then the jackboots
with German Shepherds kick in some doors, grab the "terrorists", put the
hoods and shackles on  the low-lifes and haul them off to the waiting
StratoLifter bound for a low-level flight to Gitmo. Good God! I'd vote
for the man if he would pull that off!!! Televise that event with the
media flashing xenon strobes like it was Christmas and grown men would
weep from unabashed Joy! 

The predicted results:
	The Economic index would rise. 
	Red Hat shares would recover. 
	We'd have full employment.
	Everyone would wear white togas. 
	Laurel leaves and golden winged sandals optional.
	Robert Heinlein would spin in his grave.
	The Democrats. Who? 

Here's the deal. If everyone on the list would write the White House,
and pose this solution, they might seize upon it like "I coulda had a
V-8!" I think this just might be a fun thing to do, just to see what
happens. Of course, take the usual precautions, like leaving the back
door unlocked. Just in case it backfires. Ric