Re: Spam
On May 11, 7:49 am, Christopher A. Lee wrote:
> On Sun, 11 May 2008 07:28:33 -0700 (PDT), Ken
> wrote:
>
> >On May 11, 5:57 am, Alwyn wrote:
> >> In article <4826e330$0$6430$834e4...@reader.greatnowhere.com>,
>
> >> kmwka...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> >> > commander meridia par mail
>
> >> I don't normally reply to spam, but I think it's worth cautioning
> >> anybody who might be tempted that this drug, also known as sibutramine
> >> and Reductil is not safe to take without medical supervision and is
> >> probably more dangerous than the condition it purports to treat.
>
> >> Alwyn
>
> >There's only one dumb ass in here who would fall for this spam
>
> You might be surprised.
>
> A few years ago one of the long standing loonies in alt.atheism
> installed a "Microsoft security update" he got in his email.
>
> Which looked at his Usenet spool, his email files, his address book
> and anywhere else it could fine addresses.
>
> Then sent 140k copies of itself to every occurrence of every address
> it could find. Over and over again.
>
> My 20mb email spool at my ISP would fill up in about 40 minutes in
> what amounted to a denial of service attack on every poster in every
> newsgroup he infested.
>
> Of course the ISP's tech support people were no help, telling anybody
> who complained to install an anti-virus as though that were the
> problem.
>
> It took a couple of weeks before I finally got through to a techie who
> realised it was happening on their machine not their users.
>
> So they finally installed the filters they should have done long
> before.
>
> And the perpetrator whined that it wasn't his fault, he thought it was
> a genuine security update.
>
> Never underestimate the stupidity of these loonies.
Yep
Dumb asses are everywhere.
AmeriKKK no longer has a monopoly on 'em.
BTW....wondering if Dimwit's installed that security patch yet?
date: Sun, 11 May 2008 08:21:04 -0700 (PDT)
author: Ken
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