Spam and the Spamming Spammers who Spam It
These guys stole a page from “Spy Wiper” playbook and sent Mrs. Xrlq a spam message to promote their (supposedly) anti-spam software, for which they charge a whopping $49.99. Cute, huh?
I’m happy to say that 0Spam, a free, non-spamming anti-spam service that I highly recommend, caught Rx357’s anti-spam spam. I only plucked the message from the anti-spam folder because I like irony.
December 1st, 2003 at 4:20 am
A pretty good proportion of the spams I get are from people allegedly offering anti-spam software.
Now, when the pop-up ads start hawking anti-pop-up software…
December 1st, 2003 at 6:54 am
Pretty sure that happens, too; I just never see those ads.
December 1st, 2003 at 2:34 pm
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam.
After leaving my computer turned off for five solid days, I logged on this morning to check email and found 487 messages, only 22 of which were not spam. For those who ran out of fingers to count on, that’s 465 spams or roughly 93 per day, which is onl…
December 9th, 2003 at 10:57 pm
0SPAM
I have taken the advice of Xrlq and begun running 0Spam.com — the most impressive anti-spam program I have seen. And it’s free.0Spam is especially effective when used in conjunction with MailWasher, another anti-spam program I have used for months…