[Am-info] Gates forecasts victory over spam (Gates is right)

[Gene Gaines]

Mark,

Don't know why your email did make it to the list.

A laugh.  I got berated by a friend today because "I got
infected and sent him spam".  OK, the spam email spoofed
my domain but the rest of the address was nonsense.
I told him I did not have any Microsoft/Outlook address
books on my computer, besides have up-to-date firewall
and antivirus, and never opened attachments without
... etc. etc.  He was indignant, said "that's impossible,
how could you send email without having an Outlook
address book?"  An additional laugh.  He is running an
open WiFi spot.  When I pointed that out, his answer was
"doesn't matter, I'm accessing the Internet so all my
traffic is outbound, I have all inbound traffic turned
off."  At this point, I fled as quietly as possible.

Gene
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com

On Monday, February 2, 2004, 11:15:50 AM, Mark wrote:

> I never saw this post on the list so I'm sending it again.

> In <401599E3.8000906@namesys.com>, on 01/26/04 at 02:51 PM,
>    Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> said:

>>Well, these are real concerns, but the idea that you have to pay to send
>>email is a good one.

> I run a mail list for OS/2 news announcments, with almost 1,000
> subscribers.  I frequently get rejections, either someone subscribed with
> the wrong email address, their account is on hold, they think the post is
> SPAM, etc.  Unless they take into account a process like these lists
> somehow, I don't see how it is workable.

> What they need to do is get all the dumb windoze users off the internet
> and the SPAMers will leave as well.   I say this as I'm being inundated
> with the latest windoze virus, and rejection messages from ISPs too stupid
> to realize I didn't send the original SPAM but my address was spoofed.
> Why can't some script-kiddy write a virus that would cause the windozeDOS
> user's head to explode when it's opened!  That would solve all our
> problems, as these people are just too stupid to even not open an email
> that would say "This will cause our head to explode".

> Mark



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