Re: [Asrg] News Article - CONFESSIONS OF A FORMER SPAMMER etc.

[Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>]

On May 11, 2003 at 16:23 vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver) wrote:
 > While reading that article, remember that sort of spammer is more than
 > anything else a pathological lier that cannot tell the truth, but that
 > thinks that it can always fool all of the world all of the time.
 > Nothing in that article is novel to anyone who has a few technical
 > clues, has seen some spam, and thought about tactics for pumping it
 > out.  Every bit has been mentioned many times in the favorite newsgroup
 > of spammers (and spammer fighters), news.admin.net-abuse.email.  It's
 > hard to say which of his statements in that article are partly true
 > and which are pure nonsense.  I suspect there is wishful thinking in
 > some of the technical bits.

I agree 100%, and would add that the telling parts are where he keeps
saying how he avoided this or that behavior because that would be
illegal.

Yeah, right.

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