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What is a Spammer?

Edward Dolan · 2006-10-12T02:35:51+00:00

Spammers are perhaps the most innocuous of all Usenet pests. They mostly post their messages in original posts and so they are very easy to ignore. Such spammers never bother me in the slightest. However, there are occasionally spammers who will insert their messages into various on-going threads. This is indeed very annoying and brings out the rage in everyone. Ed Gin (Johnny NoCom) of ARBR was such a spammer, but I think when you do this you are more of a troll than a spammer. The best thing you can do with a spammer is NEVER, I repeat NEVER, respond - period. Most will quickly go away never to be heard from again. However, there are some spammers who seem to hang around forever. But you soon recognize who they are and then it becomes extremely easy to ignore them. Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

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Edward Dolan
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12 October 2006, 02:35 UTC #1

Spammers are perhaps the most innocuous of all Usenet pests. They mostly
post their messages in original posts and so they are very easy to ignore.
Such spammers never bother me in the slightest.
However, there are occasionally spammers who will insert their messages into
various on-going threads. This is indeed very annoying and brings out the
rage in everyone. Ed Gin (Johnny NoCom) of ARBR was such a spammer, but I
think when you do this you are more of a troll than a spammer.
The best thing you can do with a spammer is NEVER, I repeat NEVER, respond -
period. Most will quickly go away never to be heard from again. However,
there are some spammers who seem to hang around forever. But you soon
recognize who they are and then it becomes extremely easy to ignore them.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

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12 October 2006, 03:01 UTC #2

Edward Dolan said:
Spammers are perhaps the most innocuous of all Usenet pests. They mostly
post their messages in original posts and so they are very easy to ignore.
Such spammers never bother me in the slightest.
However, there are occasionally spammers who will insert their messages into
various on-going threads. This is indeed very annoying and brings out the
rage in everyone. Ed Gin (Johnny NoCom) of ARBR was such a spammer, but I
think when you do this you are more of a troll than a spammer.
The best thing you can do with a spammer is NEVER, I repeat NEVER, respond -
period. Most will quickly go away never to be heard from again. However,
there are some spammers who seem to hang around forever. But you soon
recognize who they are and then it becomes extremely easy to ignore them.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
spamming is defined by the anti-spam bots.
Thats why you don't see any "enlarge your penis" posts on usenet -
because the bots make it too laborious for them to spam.
AI and anti-spam is a serious industry mate. By definition, if a post
gets through onto usenet its NOT SPAM.
Get it?

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Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman
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13 October 2006, 00:57 UTC #3

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Edward Dolan said:
Spammers are perhaps the most innocuous of all Usenet pests. They mostly
post their messages in original posts and so they are very easy to ignore.
Such spammers never bother me in the slightest.
However, there are occasionally spammers who will insert their messages into
various on-going threads. This is indeed very annoying and brings out the
rage in everyone. Ed Gin (Johnny NoCom) of ARBR was such a spammer, but I
think when you do this you are more of a troll than a spammer.
The best thing you can do with a spammer is NEVER, I repeat NEVER, respond -
period. Most will quickly go away never to be heard from again. However,
there are some spammers who seem to hang around forever. But you soon
recognize who they are and then it becomes extremely easy to ignore them.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
spamming is defined by the anti-spam bots.
Thats why you don't see any "enlarge your penis" posts on usenet -
because the bots make it too laborious for them to spam.
AI and anti-spam is a serious industry mate. By definition, if a post
gets through onto usenet its NOT SPAM.
Get it?
Would you consider this post that made it to Usenet spam:
<http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.tech/msg/b9b24ce5b94dcf93?dmode=source>?
Admittedly, such messages are rare on Usenet compared to email.
--
Tom Sherman - Here, not there.

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Kenneth Clements
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13 October 2006, 17:22 UTC #4

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It's for undoing muts.
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Dan B.
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13 October 2006, 17:43 UTC #5

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It's for undoing muts.
Ken. ;-)
Had to thimk about that one for a bit...mice, but a bit difficult for
this Yamkee to catch at first.
Dan

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Resound
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13 October 2006, 23:25 UTC #6

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It's for undoing muts.
Ken. ;-)
Had to thimk about that one for a bit...mice, but a bit difficult for
this Yamkee to catch at first.
Dan

Produced sonethimg of a nemtal wremch did it?

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Theo Bekkers
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16 October 2006, 01:14 UTC #7

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It's for undoing muts.
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Had to thimk about that one for a bit...mice, but a bit difficult for
this Yamkee to catch at first.
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Produced sonethimg of a nemtal wremch did it?
<applause>
Theo

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Dan B.
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17 October 2006, 11:20 UTC #8

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Kenneth Clements said:
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>> Edward Dolan wrote:
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It's for undoing muts.
Ken. ;-)
Had to thimk about that one for a bit...mice, but a bit difficult for
this Yamkee to catch at first.
Dan

Produced sonethimg of a nemtal wremch did it?
*groan*

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