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Guess-the-anonymous-poster update: One outstanding guess (paging

aliza250), one where I had to be told (

eclectic_1), all others identified. That was fun.

The stereotype is that smart people (including anyone whose job title implies serious analytical skills) don't get picked for juries, but I'm beginning to wonder. I've been called three times and picked twice, and our engineering director is currently away from work because he's on a jury. Do they just sometimes miss in the screening, or are the lawyers not really screening for this sort of thing after all?

A Texas judge has ordered that a person convicted of animal cruetly must post pictures of the animals she starved in her jail cell. Good for the judge! This is similar to the local story some months back of the hit-and-run driver who is required to carry a photo of the person he killed in his wallet during his probation. Such orders do no harm (it's hardly "cruel and unusual") and serve to put a human (or animal, in the one case) face on the damage done by these people. More, please. (And remember, we're talking about people convicted of criminal charges; I am not advocating haunting those who accidentally cause harm and don't try to hide it with such sentences.)

Do spammers really think that people still open messages with the subject line "URGENT"? Or that most of us think we even might know a sender named Brittany? Ah well; it doesn't fool the filters.

At my most recent physical my doctor called for a routine test that kicks in for women at age 40. (Am I being sufficiently delicate?) No surprises there; the surprise came when I called to schedule and the person said "oh, and no caffeine for two days before". After I moved from incoherent blubbering to actual words, I explained that this posed a difficulty and she relented. It turned out to be advice, not medical necessity. Don't scare me like that!

The connection to my graphics card is apparently loose, and things have degenerated in the last day or two. Tomorrow night it's time to pop the case and find out what's going on in there. (The symptom is sporadic change in the color balance -- mostly I've been afflicted by random pinkness, but as I type this my monitor has a bad case of jaundice.) I think it's a loose connection because rapping lightly on the side of the case often changes the state. I hope it's just loose, because I wouldn't have a clue how to buy and install a compatable graphics card.

Quote (from a protected post, so I won't identify the author): "On a personal note, I'd just like to add that any bedroom tip that starts 'make sure you are properly grounded' is somewhat suspect to me."

I get a fair bit of spam addressed to Christians, but today is the first time I've gotten spam that asserts that I'm a Muslim. (Looked pretty offensive on a quick glance, too -- the first few lines said that as a Muslim I am clearly working against peace, and went on to chide me to "return to the path of Allah" before it's too late.)

Microsoft's newest anti-spam venture involves allowing spammers who post a cash bond (as "responsible marketers") to get their mail past the filters at MSN, Hotmail, etc. Among the requirements will be that the spammers offer opt-out options that work.

To swipe (and slightly extend) a form letter that's been floating around the net for a while... ( this won't work because: )

This appalling discrimination from Virginia can't possibly be constitutional, but it's still scary. How did it pass? Bah.

Today I called Consumer Reports to find out why they had charged me for a second month of web access when I had cancelled 30 days after the initial 30-day subscription. "Let's see, it says here you cancelled on March 26." "Yes." "And you subscribed on February 25." "Yes. That's 30 days." "No, you cancelled on the 26th." "February doesn't have 30 days". (Pause.) "Oh. Right; we'll get that credit right out to you." I am completely satisfied with the support representative; their billing system might need some tweaking.

I hadn't seen this spammer tactic before: send a message faking one of those "spam-guard" services that requires people to confirm that they're real people (once) before their email addresses get added to a whitelist. I'm on enough mailing lists that it's possible I might have fallen for it if the sender had put my address, rather than a bogus one, in the "to" line. (On the other hand, I might have been suspicious of any subject line that wasn't "Re: [one of my recent subject lines]". Now I certainly will be.)

Quote from the lawyer defending the first people charged under the "Can Spam" law: "No one's done this before. It will be fun -- not for my client but for me professionally." If my lawyer publically called my case "fun", I might wonder if I had chosen wisely. :-) (Granted, the one time I hired a litigator he was excited about the case, but not because it would be "fun". It was going to be precedent-setting. I'm all for having my lawyer be motivated to do a good job because of the potential journal articles. :-) )

One of today's pieces of (physical) junk mail was from the "food fulfillment center" at some anonymous post-office box. I figured it was probably a charity looking for money, but I was curious enough to open the envelope. Yup -- Feed the Children. I wish I could deliver two clues to organizations that send me junk mail: (1) if you're not willing to put the name of your organization on the outside of the envelope I'm not going to be favorably disposed toward you, and (2) any organization addressing a general problem but only for children is not going to get my money because that's just a sympathy ploy. There are hungry adults too, y'know -- and adults who get cancer, are disabled in various ways, and live in cardboard boxes, just to pick three more child-specific causes that showed up in the mail in the last month. (Lest you get the wrong impression, I do give to charity, and fairly generously. But not to organizations whose tactics I don't approve of.)

Last night I took a short highway entrance ramp from a dead stop (because sometimes Edgewood is like that) for the first time in the new car. Vroom! My old car was pretty good for that (best I'd driven, though all the other examples were automatics so that's not balanced), but my new car is zippier. :-)

Memo to Tony on 24, c. 8:58AM: you idiot! That is all.

Recently

apod (astronomy picture of the day) has had some stunning shots.

I found a large display of half-price Easter candy in the grocery store today when I went to get lunch. We were hard-pressed to find chocolate bunnies in a different store Tuesday, and decided then to settle for chocolate chicks for the annual bunny melt. So I picked up a couple bunnies today so we can be all proper about it. (The bunny melt involves the ritual slaughter of half-price bunnies followed, soon thereafter, by fondue. My friends are delightfully twisted.)

I used to file spam complaints, but it became clear that talking to the originating sites is a bad idea and the independent services required too much work, usually cut-and-paste into browser forms. Now that my mail provider is using a blacklist based on SpamCop, I decided to reconsider them. I figure it's in my best interest, as well as being a community service, to report spam that makes it past SpamAssassin to the organization that's producing our blacklist. Much to my delight, SpamCop now accepts forwarded email for reports. Unfortunately, you then have to go to a confirmation page when their auto-responder confirms receipt; this is apparently part of an effort to keep the spammers from attacking them with DOS attacks. (They also require a real email address.) It's not onerous, though, and it does let me see what information they distilled from the spam (along with running commentary like "yum, this spam is fresh!" if you send it in promptly).

Why do car speedometers compress the useful part of the scale so much? My current car uses about 300 degrees of a circle to display 0-160. More than half of that represents speeds I will never reach. It would be much more useful if they gave me more space for the lower part, either by a graduated scale (if the mechanics behind the dial permit it) or by truncating. In my previous car, the 12:00 position represented approximately 50 MPH; in my new car, that's 80.

This Pesach I sampled three different sorts of (identifiable) store-bought macaroons. The results: Manischevitz chocolate: good (thanks siderea). Rokeach almond: ok. Shabtai almond: yes!! (thanks lefkowitzga). The orange peel adds a lot to the flavor of the last. Pity I didn't find these earlier, but I'll know for next year.

I'm surprised no one has implemented this before now.

Spam-detection based on sender, message format, keywords, and analysis of headers has been getting harder; the spammers are coming up with new techniques faster than the good guys are coming up with antedotes. One thing that they can't completely disguise, though, is the web sites they're advertising. Enter the Spam URI Realtime Blacklist. That's just brilliant. My mail provider started using it yesterday, and it's already making a difference for me.

It's not a silver bullet; spammers will defeat it in time. But I like to think that maybe they're going to have to work a little harder at it than at finding yet another undefended relay or anti-Baysian trick or whatever.

Oh, and an interesting statistic: my provider is seeing an average of 10 pieces of spam per customer per hour, which is somewhat more than what I've personally been seeing (about 125 per day). They say soem customers get ten times that. Eeek.

Someone I know has dogs named Mac and Winnie (he couldn't bring himself to name the latter Windows, I guess). His wife's cats, named before he met her, are Linux and Solaris. Y'know, if I were single, inclined to name pets after operating systems, and met a person of the appropriate gender whose pets were so named, I'd pay attention too. :-)

I assume that most people have seen spiritrover and opportunitygrrl by now. Their journals are fun to read. I hadn't realized that so many others in the area of space exploration were getting in on the act, though, until someone pointed out fuse_sat's query about joining the SCA. It's a fun thread. (The rest of the journal is entertaining too.)

More spam subject lines:

"tonight tetrahedron" -- nope; the next D&D game isn't until next week.
"cauliflower limp" -- not if you cook it right (and if this is meant to be allegorical, I don't want to know...).
"ebreo insight" -- I know it's spam, but it could be renaissance-dance-geeking, darnit! (I caved. It was yet another product to enhance a body part I don't have.)
"no visual side effects" -- maybe, but I think most people would be more concerned with visible side-effects.

More subject lines from the spam folder:
"airborne pontiff"
"inalienable abdomen"
"rabbi bacon"
"Reply to your post..." (ok, where'd that come from? Not LJ!)

Did the misguided lawmakers responsible for the "can spam" law notice the two opposing (in this case) meanings of the word "can"? That is, "can it, i.e. contain it" versus "enable". The former is what they tried to sell; the latter is what we're getting.

grifyn posted some links to ThinkGeek. Not only do they have a product category for "caffeine - drinks" where you can find Buzz Water (100 mg per bottle), but you can also get regular automatic deliveries. Some of the offerings under "caffeine - accessories" are intriguing, but I am disappointed to learn that the energy gel does not in fact seem to convey caffeine topically the way you'd think from its placement in their catalogue. I don't need to be "energized" on Yom Kippur; I need caffeine to offset the headache. :-) (Yeah, I know there would be other halachic issues to investigate.)

While I'm talking about grifyn, this saga of the job hunt made me laugh.

Scholar-in-residence weekend this Shabbat, with Rabbi Lawrence Kushner. This should be quite nifty, and as a side effect, I don't have to cook for this Shabbat at all. Congregational meals can be quite convenient. :-) (Speaking of food, the day after the Purim gathering I realized why the balance of food on the table looked wrong, when I discovered the pasta salad I had deliberately made to use up chametz and then forgot to put out. Oops! I wonder how long pasta salad keeps; it's been refrigerated and there's no mayo involved, FWIW.)

It has been way too long since the last time I watched "Blake's 7". Yay for the new DVDs. I've only watched the first two episodes so far, but this is even better than I remembered. Cool.

From a bogus "support" address:

Dear user, the management of Uj.edu mailing system wants to let you know
that,

Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content)
outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by
a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe,
follow the instructions.

For more information see the attached file.

Have a good day,
The Uj.edu team http://www.uj.edu

My journal just received the anonymous spam that's been going around for Mel Gibson's new movie. The spammers are obviously doing some keyword-matching; the version I got was targetted at Jews. (I've seen this in other journals; particularly amusing was the case where the spammer tried to talk about a band he clearly knew nothing about.)

Here, isn't this quote special? "Some people, not really representative of Jewish people, but rather self appointed Jewish spokespeople, such as Abraham Foxman from the Anti-Defamation League, seem to have been attempting to denounce this film for months as being anti-Semitic. The news reported that they even stole the script last year! But here's what some Jews say (Jews who don't make it their job to tear apart other people): Protesting Gibson's Passion Lacks Moral Legitimacy by Rabbi Daniel Lapin." (There was a link here, but I'm not going to do this person's work for him after he barges into my journal and makes accuastions of theft...)

Yes, I know I can disable anonymous commenting, but that would block some legitimate readers of my journal and anyway, it's no real skin off my nose to mock the spammer and delete his comment.

Still, I welcome any insight any of y'all can offer on the traceroute output for our "friends" at 219.94.76.250:( Read more... )

You know what? There was a time when I would have considered going to see this movie (in the theatre), because while I utterly disagree with the message, I can still appreciate well-told stories that I disagree with. (I don't know if this one is well-told, of course.) But with the way its supporters have been behaving for the last year (this sort of campaigning is only the latest step), no way. I'll see the movie someday, probably, if I don't conclude that the apparently-excessive violence wouldn't squick me and if I get past my aversion to "movies I have to read" (I don't do subtitles), but if I do, I will do it in a way that does not contribute to a "blockbuster". It'll show up on TV eventually, after all. Or someone in my circle of friends might lend a DVD.

This morning I received mail, forwarded by my email provider, from AOL. They were threatening to blacklist our entire domain because of a spam complaint (note use of the singular). I was getting this complaint because a single piece of spam was sent by some third party via a mailing list I own. So they were threatening to blacklist us, though we were only the vehicle. That's like going after the phone company because a telemarketer called you.

I've since fixed the mailing list to close that particular loophole, at some inconvenience to some list members. I also sent a message to the list saying, basically, be more careful in targetting your complaints. But it turns out it's only partially the fault of the list member who complained.

AOL makes it very easy for people to complain about spam, even if they didn't mean to. Apparently, the current UI is such that many people accidentally hit the "complain" button when they meant to hit the "delete" button. My sys admin told me of cases where AOL users "complained", presumably erroneously, about messages that they had sent. Talk about bad interface design! Quick, send them some experts in human-computer interaction! Heck, send them any intern from any HCI program.

AOL is huge, and they're certainly not going to investigate every spam complaint. Smaller providers can't afford to do so either. So they'll blacklist sites, usually temporarily, based on complaints, not on investigations. I think it's wrong to target hosts of mailing lists (absent reason to believe that they're being especially reckless), but I suppose this is how things work now. And it's going to get even worse now that the federal government has legalized spam and abolished state laws that limited it.

I'm not sure, but I might have liked it better when the uncertainty in email delivery came from the UUCP chain rather than from blacklists (and black holes). At least then everyone who was using email knew it wasn't necessarily reliable; now people just assume you're ignoring them. Sigh.

But all of this did finally prod me into learning enough about procmail tonight to set up some filtering on my own inbox. The spam has been getting a lot worse in recent months, up from 10-20 messages a day to more like 100. So I finally have candidate spam going to its own folder that I'll check in on from time to time. In the few hours it's been in place it's caught 23 pieces of spam, missed three pieces of spam, and caught no non-spam. So far, so good.

"baptist $23 trial pak - 6 doses! afeajqu"

I feel so culturally uneducated. For several weeks now I've been getting and deleting spam about "Paris Hilton", and I just saw enough of one message to realize that it isn't about vacation packages in France. Not that this changes my handling of the spam in any way, but... what kind of a first name is "Paris", anyway?

Hey, LJ finally fixed the bug with ordering of memories. Memories are useful to me again!

Lately, a larger proportion of my spam is about enhancing body parts (primarily one I do not possess). The hot stock tips seem to be on the decline, though the various flavors of the Nigeria spam continue. I guess spammers weren't getting a lot of hits for investments in a shaky economy. I remain glad that I do not use a browser (or equivalent, like Outlook) to read my non-work email; spam is bad enough without flashing "porn porn porn!" in 72-point red letters while playing supposedly-appropriate background music. :-)

On Sunday Dani was arguing that we will have a mild winter because "tomorrow's weather will be basically like today's", iterate until done, and it was about 70 degrees on Sunday. I took the opportunity to mock him for this on Monday, when the temperature dropped nearly 30 degrees in three hours (and the day ultimately ended with snow). He's just got to learn the limits of simplistic logic. :-)

On the Mark is going to sound great at Darkover this weekend. Sunday's practice went very well. We have two surprises for our fans at the con, one positive. (The other is that we'll be taking a year off -- but we'll be back, so I don't want to call that "negative". It's just reality; people get busy and groups need downtime.)

Monday's choir practice was more focused than other recent ones. The director was keeping things on track, and a habitual "problem child" wasn't there (which I'm sure helped the director). I'm skipping the next several practices because I won't be at the next two performances (one in a week and a half and one in mid-January).

We went into last night's D&D game with a disagreement on the table about what to do next. I think one player is still convinced that we can do what three of us think is currently very foolish. The question was deferred last night, though, because one player couldn't make it, and we were not about to do something high-risk without everyone there to steer his own fate. So we got the outcome that I wanted, but not through the means I wanted. Once that was settled the game was a lot of fun. (My fun in the game is augmented by extra-game character-development activities, mostly achieved via email, private geeking with the GM, and the game journal.)

Conversation snippet:
Me: Does tartar-control mouthwash actually do anything useful, or is it just a marketing scam?
My dentist: It makes the tartar softer, which makes [hygenist]'s job easier.
Me: Hey, that's worth something. If [hygenist] is going to poke sharp objects at me, I'd like her to not be frustrated.

The salad bar has returned to the Giant Eagle across the street from where I work. And there was much rejoicing. :-) (Well, some rejoicing. In order to rate full-scale rejoicing they have to restore the yellow hot peppers.)

I almost had a chance to meet sanpaku, before he suffered car failure. Eventually I'd like to meet more of the people whose journals I read.

Welcome to LJ to zachkessin, an SCA friend who moved to Israel this summer. There is now a new SCA group in Jerusalem (he and kmelion are the people I know), and they're having their first feast tomorrow (Thursday). Good luck, guys! The parts of the menu I've seen look great. (No, no turkey, for anyone who was wondering.)

Someday I will figure out how one properly decorates a sukkah; the only decorated ones I've seen have been done up with stuff made by the kids in the family/congregation. If I decorate, I want adult decorations. Whatever those would be. But at least the strands of small white lights (bought on December 26 one year :-) ) are pretty. And, more importantly, provide ample light to see dinner by.

So far it's a one-splinter year for the sukkah. That's pretty good for me. :-)

For bizarre reasons, yesterday I found myself needing to know how to say "purple dinosaur" in Hebrew. My dictionary was of no help on "dinosaur", so I ended up settling for "reptile". Not the same thing, but good enough in context.

I found out recently that my parents have never, in their entire lives, eaten Indian food. Wow. Chinese food was a novelty for me when I was growing up, but I thought that was just due to the local restaurant options. No, my parents just haven't explored a lot of unusual foods. So we're going to take them to an Indian restaurant in a couple weeks. (And no, I haven't asked them about sushi yet.)

I've been getting a lot of spam lately for Vicadin, whatever that is. From googling it appears to be either a painkiller or a psychadelic, but I'm not sure which. (I suppose the latter is a type of the former, for some people.) Did it just come onto the market or something?

My mother is sick, so we're not visiting them tomorrow after all. I wonder what I should do for lunch tomorrow. I think the correct thing to do on erev Yom Kippur is to have a large lunch including a large slab of protein, followed later by a moderate dinner. I don't have much in the way of large slabs of protein in the house just now, and I'm not going to fight the zoo at Kosher Mart on erev Yom Kippur, so I'll try to find a good fish option. (I'm still trying to figure out the mechanics of fast prep.) Someone pointed out to me that fruits like melons and grapes are really time-release water, so that'll be part of dinner.

I just watched the season opener of Andromeda. No Tyr Anasazi in the credits. (He left the crew at the end of last season, but that didn't necessarily mean he was leaving the show.) Pity; he was an interesting character, and nice to look at besides. :-) I wonder what happened; I get the impression that he was one of the more popular characters, so I doubt it was a marketing decision.

One of the pieces of spam waiting for me tonight had a pitch (well, subject line) that I couldn't imagine being attractive to people of the target gender. So I checked that assumption with Dani, who cringed just like I expected him to. The subject: "stay hard for 72 hours". Ouch! What were they thinking?! Who are they trying to attract?

From: Microsoft Outlook Express Team <oe5@aol.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Welcome to Outlook Express 5

These days, anyone who doesn't double-check headers on stuff like this is really asking for it. (Yes, there was a virus attached. I use pine, though, not Outlook Express, so I don't have to care.)

Oh, and the MIME settings were wrong for the HTML message body.

You all know the Nigerian spam, right? This is the one where the sender claims to be some close relative of a deposed ruler or the like; he's got $28 million or whatever that he has to transfer out of the country right now, and if you arrange it you can keep 20%, and if you'll just transmit your bank-account information we can get started...

I first got that spam years ago and it seemed to die out after a while. A few months ago it started showing up again -- and then the mutations, like now the person was in Liberia or elsewhere.

The spam I just received smells an awful lot like this one, but with a different tone: ( Read more... )

Large sum of money: check.
Situation is urgent: check.
Bad English (to make you think he's a foreigner, I presume): check.
Can't talk to you directly: check.
Can't go through the people who know him: check.
Remorse over the state of his soul: new twist.

Current Mood: amused

This is special:

We've got 5 Million SAFE email addresses. These are email addresses of people who elected to receive emails about different products/services. This means that when you send emails to these people there will be a drastic reduction in complaints.

Would that list, perhaps, consist of the people they sent this message to, which includes at least one person who definitely elected no such thing? I'll bet it also includes people who might have elected to receive email about, say, new releases in DVDs, but who are decidedly uninterested in, say, Viagra...

I will like you to please acknowledgement this email, thereafter I will Furnish you with the details/purpose of this mail.

That's not how it works, for email or for phone calls. You tell me who you are and what you want first, and then I will decide whether to speak with you.

He would have been more accurate if he had said "I will show you the purpose of this mail" instead of "furnish you". The purpose, after all, is to confirm the email address for spam purposes.

It was, by the way, sent to an email address that has not been my primary address for something like 8 years or an acknowledged address for about 4. (Sometimes mail forwarding isn't helpful. :-) )

The FTC is going after telemarketers. These look like pretty much the same restrictions Pennsylvania enacted a few months ago, with higher fines and the addition of rules about abandoned calls, but they'll be on a national level if Congress approves.

That reminds me: The National Foundation for Cancer Research has joined the ranks of charities who spam (and who will therefore not get any more money from me so long as they persist in doing this). I bet they won't even acknowledge my complaint; the World Wildlife Fund and the International Fund for Animal Welfare never did either. The latter two are also sending me (via physical mail) a steady stream of stuff I wouldn't want them to spend my money on anyway, like calendars and plush toys and umbrellas and whatnot, even though it hasn't paid off for them. I've started to use their postage-paid reply envelopes to tell them to go away. (My "final notice" from WWF was three mailings ago...)

[...]
Received: from ibm55941kl (unknown [62.90.241.68])
        by wormwood.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7AB72684
        for <***@pobox.com>; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:20:41 -0500 (EST)
From: respond@jewishbib.com
Subject: Important Juewish WEB Site

Dear Chaver,

Shalom!

We are happy to inform you that we have relocated to a permanent address:
[...]

I don't know who this spammer is, but a legitimate source claiming (via domain name) to be Jewish probably woudln't have misspelled "Jewish" in the subject line. And it's certainly not any domain I've had prior contact with, either from surfing or from a mailing list.

Traceroute implicates "barak.net.il". The word "barak" means "lightning". That's a thought: a lightning strike on their server room would be a fine idea in my opinion. :-)

I don't go after spammers any more unless they're persistent (most are one-shots who can't be found anyway), but I reserve the right to publicly mock the goofier ones.

Making the rounds anonymously; I got it from

madnessie:

I suppose some degree of commerce would grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren't able to call people at home during the dinner hour. But that doesn't make it any more pleasant. Now Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has proposed "Three Little Words" based on his brief experience in a telemarketing operation that would stop the nuisance for all time.

The three little words are "Hold on, please." Saying this while putting down your phone and walking off instead of hanging up immediately would make each telemarketing call so time consuming those boiler rooms would grind to a halt. When you eventually hear the phone company's beep beep beep tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task. This might be one of those articles you'll want to email to your friends.

When you get ads in your phone or utility bill, include them with the payment. Let them throw the stuff away. Think globally; act locally. When you get those pre-approved letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and junk like that, most of them come with postage paid return envelopes, right? Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little envelopes! Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express, or a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their application back! Just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them. You can send it back empty if you want, just to keep 'em guessing!

Let's support our postal service. They say email is cutting into their business and that's why they need to keep increasing postage. We can help! Pass this along to all your friends and maybe we could get enough business for the post office that they will not have to raise rates in 2004.

(Monica again.) I've actually done this with physical mail, though not lately. A couple senders have recently made it onto my sh*t list, though, so I will be reviving the practice. If IFAW and WWF won't stop spamming people (well, specifically, me), maybe I can at least use their paper mailings against them. I think each of them should receive the other's literature.

Current Mood: mischievous

Courtesy of

insomnia: a counterscript for telemarketers.

Current Mood: amused

Usually I just tell junk callers to go away (and put us on their no-call lists). We've been getting a lot of calls offering to refinance our mortgage lately, though, and I've found that the fastest way to get rid of them is to ask "can you beat 6 percent?". The folklore says that the telemarketers aren't allowed to hang up on you, but I've got a pile of experience to the contrary. :-)

Monica

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another anti-spam tool

geeky notes

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How stupid do they think I am?!

passionate spammers

spam problems

spam of the day

out of the loop

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food, eye candy, spam

They have got to be kidding...

mutations of the Nigerian spam

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phone and email spam

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