Is it just me or has everyone else started to get (beep)loads of chinese (or whatever language it is) spam?
This is a new low, because with spam up to now atleast we could read them and get rid of about 25% of them through their own instruction. But we (non chinese speaking people) can’t even read how to get rid of it.
Don’t &&^% B*7^^43 spammers know that zero point zero zero percent of people want to know about products or dick enlargment things or business atms or how to make lots of money. What really pisses me off is not that unwanted stuff is in my e-mail box, but that the language, the tricks they use assume we are stupid. most of us are not stupid and are patronised by words like “Yeah, I was sceptical about all those get rich quick schemes too, but this one is different!” yeah right, piss off.
more relevantly to this post. don’t these wankers (not chinese people, I mean the people responsible for the spam) know that the overwhelming majority of the world other than the orient DOESN’T SPEAK CHINESE.
It’s a crap crap system where it is SO EASY to piss off MILLIONS of people just with a few clicks of a mouse and a bit of irresponsible lacking of TWO SECONDS OF THOUGHT - (copying a list of e-mail addresses (none of which are chinese people) into a contact list, compose a chinese e-mail, click select all and click send
I’d love it if some law was passed where within companies the people who said “I know, let’s send an advert for our great [useless pointless shitty piece of crap] product to millions of people” have to be exposed by the company. then tied to a lampost on a busy street with a sign above him that says ‘This guy sends spam. go nuts, and btw they are giving away free balloons full of sick and poo across the road’
This is more of a Pit rant, but I’ll attempt to address the little bit of it that is a question.
Spam is so cheap to send out that you don’t have to care whether it’s very successful. Even if only 0.001% of everyone who gets the spam responds in a way you want, you’ve just made a profit.
Chinese ISPs are also notoriously bad about letting people send spam from their computers. Taiwanese and Singaporean ISPs are the same way. A spammer can run for a little while out of a mainly good ISP, but eventually he will get found out and stopped (spamming is against the TOSs (Terms of Service) in 99.9% of all ISPs). If a spammer can find an ISP that doesn’t care, thinks spamming is a ‘right’, or is owned by spammers he can go on forever.
That is why places like the MAPS Realtime Blackhole List (RBL) exist. They ‘blackhole’ ISPs that fail to conform to certain rules, making them inaccessable to their subscribers. They usually blackhole open relays, ISPs that allow outsiders to relay email through their computers. Relaying can make a spam nearly impossible to track back to its originator.
RBLs walk a fine line: They must blackhole rogue ISPs long enough to serve their subscribers, but if they blackhole good guys, or don’t de-blackhole reformed ISPs, people get really, extremely mad. Plenty of people don’t like RBLs at all.
Well I used to get a lot of spam - then I went on holiday, came back, and followed the unsubscribe instructions in as many as I could. I knew this would be futile for most but I also knew it would work for some.
As a result I got no-where near as much spam.
Then recently I did some thing which bumped up my spam content again - i.e. I posted to alt.fan.britney-spears.
This forum is for questions with factual answers. I don’t see such a question, so I’ll close this thread. Perhaps you would like to repost in the BBQ Pit.