# You slimy little shit...buttmunch sells AOL's sub list to spammer **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 24, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036 "2004-06-24T16:22:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036/1 "2004-06-24T16:22:10Z")
[AOL worker arrested in spam scheme](http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/23/technology/aol_spam/index.htm?cnn=yes) It is much more fun (and less prone to fines and jail time) to view the dark side as job security as opposed to a meal ticket… ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036/2 "2004-06-24T16:25:25Z")
If your e-mail address ends in @aol.com, how would you even notice the difference in the sheer volume of spam? I did AOHell for about a year before I wised up and got Cable. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036/3 "2004-06-24T17:28:12Z")
You won’t catch me defending AOL, but this could’ve happened (and will continue to happen) at any ISP. Mr. Smathers apparently has himself a [web site](http://www.thesmathers.com/index.php) where some rather pissed off folks are writing him nice little love letters on his [forum](http://www.thesmathers.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=2). ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036/4 "2004-06-24T17:43:51Z")
How creepily ironic the world would be if spammers actually gave a rat’s ass about how the people they were spamming felt about it. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036/5 "2004-06-24T17:48:32Z")
I would like to disavow myself from any person referenced in the subject line. ---
**Author:** ![NotMrKnowItAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6bbea6/32.png) [@NotMrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotMrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036/6 "2004-06-24T17:56:10Z")
Oooh, thanks for the link to his site. Quite the read there. My favorite is this post from someone at his work(or so they say). > [@your coworkers](#): > > You know who this is. Think about it a minute, you’ll know. > > Thanks a lot. Thanks for fucking us all over while the whole time you’re smiling in the office and playing the nice guy. Thanks for heaping one more heaping spoonful of shit on the pile we’ve been trying to dig ourselves out from under. > > I can’t believe you did this to the people you worked beside day in and day out. People who WORK THEIR ASSES OFF trying to make our lives and our product better. How many times did I help you when you were stuck with a script or some other task? Huh? How many times did I stop work in the middle of the day and sit down with you to sift through a pile of data to figure out a problem? > > Damn, you and your wife even came to my Christmas party. > > You betrayed us all. When you get free, don’t come home…because I’ve got a long fucking memory and I’ll make your cellmate Rufus look like a pussycat. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036/7 "2004-06-24T19:21:29Z")
I found his [hit counter statistics](http://www.thesmathers.com/modules.php?name=Statistics&op=Stats) fairly telling… Too bad he hadn’t been _really_ smart and sold some banner ads for his site. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036/8 "2004-06-24T20:03:48Z")
You can read the 13-page indictment on [The Smoking Gun](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0623042aol1.html). ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036/9 "2004-06-24T20:05:33Z")
> [@honeydewgrrl](#): > > You won’t catch me defending AOL, but this could’ve happened (and will continue to happen) at any ISP. > > Mr. Smathers apparently has himself a [web site](http://www.thesmathers.com/index.php) where some rather pissed off folks are writing him nice little love letters on his [forum](http://www.thesmathers.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=2). Some poster on his site… > [@](#): > > You better pray that your soon-to-be cellmate never got any of those penis-enlargement pill spams that you made so easy to send. Bwhahaha! ---
**Author:** ![PetW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PetW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PetW)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036/10 "2004-06-25T15:38:09Z")
I like this one: > [@](#): > > HAHAHAHA, his site is gonna get so much traffic, it’s gonna cost em. > And he can’t take it down cause he’s in jail!!! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036/11 "2004-06-27T03:22:39Z")
> [@PetW](#): > > I like this one: Not any more. The site now points to [kissmyass.com](http://kissmyass.com). Lovely. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036/12 "2004-06-27T03:38:24Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > I found his [hit counter statistics](http://www.thesmathers.com/modules.php?name=Statistics&op=Stats) fairly telling… > > Too bad he hadn’t been _really_ smart and sold some banner ads for his site. Now that the links are dead, do you recall the number? I didn’t get a chance to check it out. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-slimy-little-shit-buttmunch-sells-aols-sub-list-to-spammer/252036/13 "2004-06-27T13:57:10Z")
> [@honeydewgrrl](#): > > Now that the links are dead, do you recall the number? I didn’t get a chance to check it out. It was something ridiculous like 3 hits a month for the past year, and then over 15000 hits on June 24 or 25th - whichever day the news hit the headlines.