No Link. I just wanted to let any of my good friends in Nigeria, the Congo, Sierra Leone, South Africa, The Philippines, etc. who might be reading this know the following:

I'm simply not interested in helping smuggle millions of dollars out of your country. No interest whatsoever. So stop asking.

While I'm on the subject, think I would get in "real" trouble if I started going through the motions with these scammers and then flying down to Africa and immediately putting a bullet in the fucking head of every fuckhead scammer that showed up at the airport? I mean, just how far will bribery get me in Lagos? Pretty far I bet. Everyone should do that. We should flood Nigeria with drunk, pistol packing yahoos looking for their cut of thirty million dollars. We'll see how much longer the email flood continues after that…

In case you were wondering, I'm so sick of these emails I'm something like 37% serious.

In the real world, I think I'm going to set up a throwaway email address start flaming these guys. Should be fun.

NEMO Music Showcase and Conference has me on their mailing list for some unknown reason. I've attempted the regular "remove:" address, thinking that this apparently "for real" organization would give a shit about the people it sends email to and actually follow through on a remove request. Unfortunately, their remove system is about as trustworthy as a porn spammer and I continue to get email. POPFile, the Bayesian email filter that I use, correctly sorts their emails as spam, but that's not really the point. If they reply I'll be sure to post it here.

From: "Rob Larsen"
To:
Subject: stop emailing me.
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:33:50 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 1
X-MSMail-Priority: High

I've done the remove thing in your mailings twice (including today) and I
still receive email from you folks. Normally I would just let my email
client sort your UCE as the spam it is and be done with it, but I'm annoyed
that a legitimate organization can't take a hint and leave me alone.

To the point: I don't care about your event. I never will. I have no idea
why you even decided it would be a good idea to include me on your mailing
list. I fear that my prior connection to the Weekly Dig left me on some open
broadcast list from which my email address was then harvested. Which is
pretty stupid because I NEVER WROTE ABOUT MUSIC (of course, it goes without
saying that grabbing addresses like that is super- lame.)

To sum up: STOP SENDING ME EMAIL ABOUT YOUR EVENT.

Thanks,

Rob Larsen

http://drunkenfist.com

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"To recognize individual spam features you have to try to get into the mind of the spammer, and frankly I want to spend as little time inside the minds of spammers as possible."

Now if I can just throttle a dozen spammers and toss their bodies into a shallow grave, my life will be just that much more complete.Federal Trade Commission – The "Do Not Call" Registry

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