SPAM levels back up

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 18:59 -0800, Bob Hemus wrote:
> 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

He doesn't listen to her, from what I read in NewsWeek... she wanted
Rumsfeld out long ago! He didn't listen... that's why the approach to
his ego. Works every time. <G> Ric