# Aimless rant about e-mail spammers. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 2, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aimless-rant-about-e-mail-spammers/121960 "2002-08-02T02:15:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aimless-rant-about-e-mail-spammers/121960/1 "2002-08-02T02:15:42Z")
_ **WILL YOU MOTHERFUCKERS LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE?!** _ I have _36_ individual filters on my e-mail account. I have at least _two hundred_ e-mail addresses and domains blocked. Yet STILL you plague me! I do NOT need a bigger penis, a smaller paunch, or more hair! I do NOT need less debt, a new home, or a credit card! I do NOT need to get my diploma at home, nor do I have any interest in helping transfer money from Nigeria! And now you all are getting clever. I have key words like “Viagra” blocked, so what do you do? You put things like “Liquid V. sent to you at home.” in the subject line. You people should be sewn up inside a goatskin and thrown into a very smelly sewer to drown! If I knew who you were, I’d hire a huge Russian guy to shove a red-hot wire down your pee-hole! May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits, or, barring that, just DIE DIE DIE! ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aimless-rant-about-e-mail-spammers/121960/2 "2002-08-02T03:59:49Z")
I HATE SPAM!!! I agree with you totally! It’s getting ridiculous! And what really gets me is when they put a name in the “from” box. The name is a first name. I know Andrews, and Toms, and all the rest…so how am I supposed to know which are real and which are spam. And when you put “Re:” in the title…I think that I actually sent you something! I hate you spammers! May the viruses you send me be transmittable from computers and may you end up with them. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aimless-rant-about-e-mail-spammers/121960/3 "2002-08-02T21:41:24Z")
Mmm. People here at work are starting to get some nice spam now. Silly things like credit card offers, personal ads and such. It’s getting awfully hard to avoid, and getting to be a nuisance to have to delete & deal with. Much like all the junk crap that fills up my physical mailbox, quite frankly. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aimless-rant-about-e-mail-spammers/121960/4 "2002-08-02T21:56:31Z")
What’s worse than spammers? [Spammers who spoof your email address](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=121611&highlight=spoof%2A) and you only find out when one bounces back to you. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aimless-rant-about-e-mail-spammers/121960/5 "2002-08-02T23:03:43Z")
**Jeff** , pardon my ignorance. I checked out your link - what the heck does all of that stuff really mean? I’m not following it. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aimless-rant-about-e-mail-spammers/121960/6 "2002-08-03T02:46:45Z")
“May you fall into an outhouse pit just as a regiment of Cossacks finishes a dinner of beer and sauerkraut!” - old Yiddish curse ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aimless-rant-about-e-mail-spammers/121960/7 "2002-08-03T13:30:54Z")
I’ve been getting spam with huge attachments. So if I don’t check my hotmail address for three or four days, it adds up, and I get a message saying that I can’t accept any emails because I don’t have enough space. And it’s freaking Spanish spam! I can’t even _read_ Spanish! ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aimless-rant-about-e-mail-spammers/121960/8 "2002-08-03T13:33:28Z")
Okay, I just realised how silly that sounded. It looks like Spanish spam, but I can’t be certain since I can’t read Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aimless-rant-about-e-mail-spammers/121960/9 "2002-08-05T15:02:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scout1222 \* > \*\ ***Jeff** , pardon my ignorance. > > I checked out your link - what the heck does all of that stuff really mean? I’m not following it. \*\* That was the header, I’m don’t really know what it all means myself but it has something to do with making sure the mail gets where it’s supposed to. The important thing is that this Hotmail asshole made the email client think his spam was really coming from me. **Kayeby** , you could C&P that possible spam into [Babelfish](http://babelfish.altavista.com/) to get a translation. At least then you’ll know what it says.