SPAM levels back up

[Bob Hemus]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 20:30 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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
You think Laura would read it to him and explain that "spam" is not
canned chopped ham?
Bob