A Worse Class of Spam
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Just browsing through my email, I've realised just how much spam gets on my nerves. Not because I've been sent unsolicited fraudulent mail, but because the link that I'm supposed to click contains my email address and first name passed as GET parameters, as if I wouldn't be able to manipulate that. I get the feeling that anyone with style would have found a way to pass it as a POST parameter. Or maybe I just get a lower class of spam than everyone else. I'm wondering whether or not it's odd that I'm not particularly annoyed by the spam on principle, but more that I'm disappointed by the standard of spam I get =P
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Just browsing through my email, I've realised just how much spam gets on my nerves. Not because I've been sent unsolicited fraudulent mail, but because the link that I'm supposed to click contains my email address and first name passed as GET parameters, as if I wouldn't be able to manipulate that. I get the feeling that anyone with style would have found a way to pass it as a POST parameter. Or maybe I just get a lower class of spam than everyone else. I'm wondering whether or not it's odd that I'm not particularly annoyed by the spam on principle, but more that I'm disappointed by the standard of spam I get =P
Haven't recieved a "business proposition" out of Africa for nearly a month now - did somebody cut the internet connection?
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
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Haven't recieved a "business proposition" out of Africa for nearly a month now - did somebody cut the internet connection?
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
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Haven't recieved a "business proposition" out of Africa for nearly a month now - did somebody cut the internet connection?
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
It may be your spam filter - I just realized that I hadn't had any offers of huge amount of money either. So I checked, and there are a bunch of them, together with some phishing trips I need to pass on sitting there in my spam folder.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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It may be your spam filter - I just realized that I hadn't had any offers of huge amount of money either. So I checked, and there are a bunch of them, together with some phishing trips I need to pass on sitting there in my spam folder.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
I just did that, and to my surprise I found quite a number of emails from the other members of the c++ committee - seems the filter has become a wee bit overzealous.
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
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I just did that, and to my surprise I found quite a number of emails from the other members of the c++ committee - seems the filter has become a wee bit overzealous.
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
So that's who the hamsters got to do the CP spam filter last week!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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So that's who the hamsters got to do the CP spam filter last week!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
Possibly, we all know they got friends in strange places
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
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I just did that, and to my surprise I found quite a number of emails from the other members of the c++ committee - seems the filter has become a wee bit overzealous.
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
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That, or Apple wrote your spam filter. "C++? Pfft - far too high-level. You will use Obj-C!" It's just trying to stop you from falling in with the wrong crowd ;)
I appreciate your concern, but I've long since fallen in with the right crowd ;) Obj-C? The only person I've ever known that uses that language is also the least productive, by far, developer I've come to know. I'll admit that the language probably doesn't have anything to do with that - but it does make me suspicious :laugh:
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
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Just browsing through my email, I've realised just how much spam gets on my nerves. Not because I've been sent unsolicited fraudulent mail, but because the link that I'm supposed to click contains my email address and first name passed as GET parameters, as if I wouldn't be able to manipulate that. I get the feeling that anyone with style would have found a way to pass it as a POST parameter. Or maybe I just get a lower class of spam than everyone else. I'm wondering whether or not it's odd that I'm not particularly annoyed by the spam on principle, but more that I'm disappointed by the standard of spam I get =P
Just change the contents of the GET parameters to fake email addresses at the sender's domain and then submit. Repeat 50000 times with different names at the sender's domain. But ensure that it is the 'real' sender, not the poor soul whose account was hacked to send the email. Perhaps if we all spammed the spammers they might get the message(s).
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Just change the contents of the GET parameters to fake email addresses at the sender's domain and then submit. Repeat 50000 times with different names at the sender's domain. But ensure that it is the 'real' sender, not the poor soul whose account was hacked to send the email. Perhaps if we all spammed the spammers they might get the message(s).
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I just did that, and to my surprise I found quite a number of emails from the other members of the c++ committee - seems the filter has become a wee bit overzealous.
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
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Adding the c++ commitee's email to your address book should resolve that problem without having to mark the email "not spam". Note: I said should, that doesn't mean will.
It propably did - but it's a remainder that I should check the junk-email folder every once in a while.
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS My LinkedIn Profile
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Nah, I think all this olympic-related net traffic is swamping the connection. Africa's still on 56.6 kbps. =P
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South African here - We're simply celebrating at our new "Cheap" international roaming prices ;D http://mybroadband.co.za/news/cellular/55523-grab-r5000-per-gb-special-while-it-lasts.html[^]
-= Reelix =-
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Bloody hell, £389 ($610)/GB? Please tell me that someone has misplaced the decimal point here!
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Just browsing through my email, I've realised just how much spam gets on my nerves. Not because I've been sent unsolicited fraudulent mail, but because the link that I'm supposed to click contains my email address and first name passed as GET parameters, as if I wouldn't be able to manipulate that. I get the feeling that anyone with style would have found a way to pass it as a POST parameter. Or maybe I just get a lower class of spam than everyone else. I'm wondering whether or not it's odd that I'm not particularly annoyed by the spam on principle, but more that I'm disappointed by the standard of spam I get =P
So worst class wouldn't be the ones that have placeholder fields in the content that that were left unsubstituted, E.g.:
{blahblah}
So they sent spam without filling in the template and I wonder "Why did they even bother?" if they're not putting their own information in. :doh:
