Archive for August, 2004

end of the spam as we know it

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004

no, i don’t predict the end of spam as we know it, but reading the latest crop of spam, I read between the spammers lines that they might guess that their days might be numbered so they are going all out for now to make hay while the sun shines,

the porn spam has gotten even more vulgar (as if it could) and like the hey day of growing empires of spam, selling on and co-opting in would be fall guys to buy lists and believe in spam, as if there would be safety in numbers come a clamp down.

when authorities raid free radio stations (pirates) they (the authorities) only cause a stir and help drive it further underground, many a time 1 station would be raided & 2 return from the same stable by way of split or self preservation.

now spammers will never get the street cred protection free radio gets, but selling on packages tends to indicate they want a sea of other spammers out there with them (safety in numbers) or/and they are selling on list while they perceive them (lists) to have any value before a major clamp down makes 24 million addys (for use) look like a crime in itself.

they have always tried to sell on lists, there’s one fool dialing up every minute, but Im just watching a short trend, like one week its drugs, before it was scams or something else, and im just seeing a trend since thursday/friday … anyway I could be wrong.

btw, a tuned up spam assassin & GMail are keeping out 1000’s (400 daily) of spam
and lettin in about 12 spam mails per day, safety in numbers, most
spam in marked by the GMail community before it hits my spam box and we all play our part.

and I feel fine,
happy 5th birthday to blogger.com

I DONT BELIEVE IT

Tuesday, August 17th, 2004

wrt the arrests and now charges of 8 uk ‘terror’ suspects

reutes says
One of them, Dhiren Barot, 32, was also accused of having “reconnaissance plans” of the Prudential building in New Jersey, the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup headquarters in New York, and the International Monetary Fund in Washington.

The plans were “of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism,” police said.

The United States imposed “orange alerts” around those buildings on Aug. 1, saying authorities had obtained plans of the buildings from a suspected al Qaeda computer expert held in Pakistan. The British suspects were arrested two days later.
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so the shut down in NY was 2 days before they were arrested
and the ‘computer expert’ had the same plans as one of the UK ‘cell’

as zig n zag used to say
I DONT BELIEVE IT

what are the chances of getting the guy in Pakistan with a 1000 discs full of details to lead to 8 uk terrorists 2 days AFTER bush uses the same news to shut the city down & to announce he is appointing a tsar on itel. the US leaked computer ‘experts’ name see
cnn link
ruining any chance of a sting op.

April 03′ a Sky news guy in Washington reported ‘LIVE’ that a chemical weapons factory was discovered, he was standing in the Pentagon darkened conference room, the news was immediate and Sky not shy to let the world know they had this 1.30am exclusive, so I jumped to reuters and AFP and saw none of this story, I didn’t expect the wires to be as fast as Sky were claiming to be bringing this news to me, but then I goggled and found the full story on Jerusalem Post must have been up 45 minutes and the ink on its print editions was still wet. The thing is the way this story dropped faster than a bomb over Baghdad, it went nowhere and turned out to be untrue.
I DIDNT BELIEVE IT

COMPARE
bbc
and
cnn

equals 12 days of fear in Itlay and the world.