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Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious
From: Benjamin Brown <optikali () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:07:33 -0500
That reminds me of a Bash.org quote: <wolf> 1. Save every Free Credit Card Offer you get, Put it in pile A <wolf> 2. Save every Free Coupon You get, put that in pile B <wolf> 3. Now open the credit card mail from pile A and find the Business Reply Mail Envelope. <wolf> 4. Take the coupons from pile B and stuff them in the envelope you hold in your hand. <wolf> 5. Drop the stuffed to the brim envelopes in your mail and walk away whistling. <wolf> I have now received two phone calls from the credit card companies telling me that they received a stuffed envelope with coupons rather then my application. They informed me that it they are not pleased that they footed the bill for the crap I sent them. I reply with "It says Business Reply Mail" I'm suggesting coupons to you to ensure that your business is more successful. They promptly hang up on me. <wolf> Now, I did this for about a month before it got boring, so I got an added idea! I added exactly 33 cents worth of pennies to the envelope so they paid EXTRA due to the weight. I got a call informing me about the money, I said it was a mistake and I demanded my change back. After yelling at the clerk and then to the supervisor they agreed to my demands and cut me a check for the money. I hold in my hand at this very moment a check from GTE Visa for exactly 33 cents. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Ned Fleming <ned () kaw us> wrote:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:55:09 -0800, "Randy Abrams" <abrams () eset com> wrote:Actually, if you live in the US you can opt out of most junk mail. Checkwith you post office.Ah, but there can be a benefit to receiving junk snail mail. It's been years since I read this, but there was this fellow (in Massachusetts? Maine? New Hampshire?) who deliberately had as much junk mail sent to him as possible. The mail he actually wanted to read he had addressed to a PO box, which he picked up every day. So what did he do with the 10 bags of junk email he received every day? He burned it. He used it to heat his house. The US postal service was merely the delivery agent for his fuel. Al Gore would have frowned, had he been on his high horse ten years ago. I admired the man's ingenuity. Ned _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious, (continued)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Drsolly (Feb 10)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious rackow (Feb 10)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious der Mouse (Feb 10)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Dan Kaminsky (Feb 21)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Tomas L. Byrnes (Feb 21)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Rich Kulawiec (Feb 22)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Dan Kaminsky (Feb 22)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Ned Fleming (Feb 11)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Benjamin Brown (Feb 11)