Anonymous Living

E-mail spam has been a huge problem for years and it just don’t want to go away. And the line between a spam mailing list and a interesting mailing list is sometimes thin.

“Kyle” had this to say in a reply to a message about problems with the anonymity software Tor on the OR-Talk mailing list:

FIRST AND FINAL WARNING!!!!
You have 48 hours to remove me from your mailing list.
If you do NOT remove me, I will DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) your
server until you are broke.

Try me, I got 10 OC192’s, 15 OC48’s, and 8 OC12’s just waiting for shit like
this…and I’m getting pissed. If you are working for yourself or some spam
king, either way the “customer” who is paying you to “advertise” will NOT be
happy when they spent their money to be only be attacked in return.

Remove me or else I remove your source of revenue.

Again, FIRST AND FINAL WARNING!!!!

Have a nice day and get a real fucking job.

“Kyle” then got a copy of his message to the mailing list back to him and realized that it was a reply to a legitimate message from a mailing list he subscribes to - and not a reply to spam. He then mailed this to OR-talk:

Subject: IGNORE PREVIOUS MESSAGE
I was testing a spam-reply script and  or-talk at freehaven.net got into it
somehow.
My bad, sorry.

Well, good luck with your spam-reply script, Kyle! I personally think such scripts are a bad idea, because what they really do is tell the spammer is that “You know, this is a valid e-mail account, your spam is getting through, you should mark it as a valid mail account and send it more spam”.

Oh, btw. Don’t mess with Kyle. Remember, he’s got all those 10 OC192’s, 15 OC48’s, and 8 OC12’s just waiting for shit.