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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> The Curse of Spam, Historicized |
dear netizens,
I recently came across a so-called "talking-heads theory". Does any of you
know more about this theory, like who formulated it, what it is about, where
it is being used?
thank you in advance,
katerina
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From: "Bruce Sterling" <bruces@well.com>
To: <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
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Subject: <nettime> The Curse of Spam, Historicized
> This is http://keithlynch.net/spamline.html
>
> Here is Keith Lynch's timeline of spam-related events, terms,
> concepts, people, and sites, according to DejaNews and my own
> archives. There is more about e-mail spam than usenet spam, since I'm
> more interested in battling the former. Plenty isn't on here simply
> because it would be a hassle to search for it, e.g. when various
> spam-related lawsuits were started or won. Gradual transitions are
> also of course not shown, even though they're more important than
> anything that is shown. For instance the fact that there are
> finally no major sites which allow spamming, which knowingly host
> spamvertised web pages, or which tell complainers to register on the
> spammer's remove list. No honest and rational person still advocates
> remove lists. Please e-mail me (kfl@keithlynch.net) any suggestions or
> comments. No spam please.
>
> Year Term
> Month
>
> 85 8 Chain letters via e-mail (quickly stamped out until 1993)
>
> 91 2 Craig Shergold wants cards
> 91 2 Craig Shergold doesn't want cards
>
> 93 6 The $5 -> $50,000 chain letter on news, some titled MAKE.MONEY.FAST
> 93 9 The $5 -> $50,000 chain letter on news mentioning Dave Rhodes
>
> 94 3 "MMF" (any chain letter, after classic subject line
> "MAKE.MONEY.FAST")
> 94 3 unsolicited commercial e-mail (now called e-mail spam)
> 94 4 The "green card lawyers" (Canter & Siegel) newsgroup spam
> 94 4 "spam" (meaning mass sending of netnews)
> 94 11 CancelMoose
> 94 12 "spam" (meaning mass sending of mail to legitimate mailing lists)
> 94 12 The "good times" e-mail virus hoax
>
> 95 1 "Krazy" Kevin Lipsitz (notorious newsgroup spammer)
> 95 3 "velveeta" (crossposting an article to too many newsgroups)
> 95 4 "Briedbart Index" to decide which newsgroup posts are spam
> 95 4 Jeff Slaton (notorious spammer, "the Spam King")
> 95 5 Floodgate (spamware)
> 95 5 news.admin.net-abuse newsgroup
> 95 6 "spamvertise" (to advertise via spam)
> 95 6 "spamware" (spamming software)
> 95 6 UDP (Usenet Death Penalty -- all newsgroup postings from site are
> nuked)
> 95 7 "spam" (meaning mass sending of mail to all addresses one can
> scrounge)
> 95 7 NoCeM
> 95 8 Sanford Wallace (uber-spammer -- cyberpromo, savetrees, ispam,
> answerme, spamford, etc)
> 95 8 List of 2 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
> 95 10 abuse@ addresses
> 95 11 "remove list" (the first (?) of many that were intended to be
> universal)
> 95 11 "LART"
> 95 11 Cyber Promotions, aka CyberPromo (notorious spam outfit)
>
> 96 1 "rogue domain"
> 96 1 Freedom Knights ("anti-censorship" pro-spam group)
> 96 3 Spamblocks (e.g. REMOVE.TO.REPLY) added to addesses to foil
spammers
> 96 3 Yuri Rutman (notorious spammer)
> 96 4 "UCE" (meaning Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)
> 96 4 Lightning Bolt (spamware)
> 96 4 X-No-Archive: header lines
> 96 5 Walt Rines (notorious spammer -- Quantcom, IEMMC, etc)
> 96 6 IDP (Internet Death Penalty -- all packets from site are nuked)
> 96 6 Whack-a-Mole (spammers who quickly lose accounts but keep
reappearing
> at different sites)
> 96 7 "spamhaus" (a spamming site)
> 96 7 news.admin.net-abuse.email newsgroup
> 96 7 List of 7 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
> 96 8 "UBE" (meaning Unsolicited Bulk E-mail)
> 96 9 "Spamford" (nickname for uber-spammer Sanford Wallace)
> 96 9 "munging" (another term for spamblocking)
> 96 10 "spamblock"
> 96 10 Ready-Aim-Fire (spamware)
> 96 10 List of 11 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
> 96 11 "Four Reports" chain letter mentioning Christopher Erickson
> 96 11 "Teergrube" (a relay which discards everything) proposed
> 96 12 Dave Mustachi (notorious spammer -- Floodgate spamware)
> 96 12 Earthstar (rogue domain)
> 96 12 Nancynet (rogue domain)
> 96 12 E-mail Blaster (spamware)
>
> 97 1 Quantcom (rogue domain)
> 97 1 Extractor Pro (spamware)
> 97 3 "open relay"
> 97 3 Dan Huffnal (notorious spammer)
> 97 3 Stealth (spamware)
> 97 4 IEMMC (e-mail spammers' organization, claimed to have "universal"
> remove list)
> 97 5 CAUCE (an organization that favors a law banning UCE but not UBE)
> 97 5 Smith bill (would ban UCE but not UBE)
> 97 6 Spam hearings at the FTC
> 97 6 "SMTP hijacking" (first use was apparently in a message from *me*)
> 97 6 "relay rape"
> 97 6 List of 31 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
> 97 6 abuse-email@ and abuse-news@ addresses
> 97 7 "Picklejar" (nickname for spammer Walt Rines)
> 97 7 mallet (weapon metaphorically used against spammers)
> 97 7 BulkMate (spamware)
> 97 7 List of 57 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
> 97 8 "relay hijacking"
> 97 8 Goldrush (spamware)
> 97 9 "Four Reports" chain letter mentioning Karen Liddell
> 97 9 E-mail Platinum (spamware)
> 97 10 AGIS (last major spam-friendly site) kicks off CyberPromo,
Quantcom,
> Nancynet, and other spammers. IEMMC dead. Whack-a-Mole epoch
> begins.
> 97 10 Joe Melle (notorious spammer -- NOIC, TSF-industries, etc)
> 97 10 RBL (Realtime Blackhole List) of spam sites, run by Paul Vixie
> 97 10 Golden Mallet award
> 97 12 List of 80 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
>
> 98 1 "E-Rage" (what spammers claim spam opponents suffer from)
> 98 1 "Lumber Cartel" (what spammers claim spam opponents are being
> paid by)
> 98 2 Rapidfire (spamware)
> 98 3 Express Mail Server (spamware)
> 98 3 remove-list.com (yet another "universal" remove list, was
> finally disconnected in September but is still (10/98) often being
> touted in spams).
> 98 4 ISOC (Internet Society) meeting on spam
> 98 4 Netcom (last major holdout) finally agrees to stop hosting
> spamvertised web sites
> 98 6 "Murking" (spamming while citing the proposed Murkowski
> spam law as "proof" that this spam is ok).
> 98 7 HyperOrbit (spamware)
> 98 7 List of 91 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
> 98 8 "404 compliant" said of a spammer's web page which has been
> deleted, analogous to murkers claiming to be "301 compliant"
> 98 10 SAFEeps, yet another universal remove list. Sigh.
> 98 11 Dotless numeric web sites (e.g. http://3448157907/xx12),
> to make tracing harder.
>
> 99 11 DMA announces a new global remove list (e-mps.org). Idiots.
>
> Also see the "official" news.admin.net-abuse jargon file:
>
> http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/ip/freenet/subs/complaints/spam/jargon.txt
>
> and my net timeline http://keithlynch.net/timeline.html
> which is similar to this page but without the focus on spam.
>
> Last updated November 25th, 1999
>
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