I got frustrated with this so I just figured it out: 25% of the e-mails I recieved today were some (supposedly) unauthorized videos of Paris Hilton having sex. Here is why it bothers me:
Since I’m not the one having sex with her, I really don’t care.
What is so unusual about an attractive 19 year old girl having sex? Who cares? Of course she’s having sex. Duh. It would be news if she wasn’t.
How does this crap find me anyway?
Someone told me she has some new televisions show: Frankly, I never heard of the woman until all this sex-video stuff, is this a part of the intentional, guerilla marketing campaign for pulicity for the TV show. If it is, I guess it works- two weeks ago I though Paris Hilton was a hotel in France. I’ll never watch the show though, or one of the stupid videos.
was wondering what was special about the Hilton in Paris…now I know
My tri club has a track session just next to the Eiffel Tower and the Paris Hilton overlooks the track. On Thursday night I noticed a lot of the rooms had their lights on with the curtains open, but I didn’t see any 19 year old girls in there having sex.
Count me in as another guy who thought she was a hotel. I’ve since been informed that she’s the granddaughter of the guy who founded the Hilton chain of hotels, so at least we were kinda right. Her “fame” comes from having an absolutely stupid amount of money, and I’m told that she’s quite the party girl on the international circuit - gee, I wonder why?
I have a “spam account” that I use most places where I need to post my email address (although strangely enough I used one of my regular addresses here - wonder if I need to change that), which makes it easier to filter out most of the crap.
Little known fact about Tom Demerly: After responding to every penis enlargement spam ad I receive my penis is now 37 feet long. It is like a reticulated python. I’ve even had the bullet train tattoed on it, and the TGV on the other side. Quite a spectacle.
I haven’t noticed much change from the usual ads offering me a huge cock!
Respond with “What do I need another one for?”
“6 reponses from Slowtwitch forum.
2 Paris Hilton video download offers.
1 “penis patch” enlargement ad.”
The solution is simple. Put the patch on and watch the videos. Delete the slowtwitch repsonses. You’ve probably read similar responses before anyway. =)
Quick question, “Don’t you have to visit one of those sights to trigger the porn ads in the e-mail box?”.
Can they arrive without ever have visited an adult site?
As for the penile enlargement ads … I don’t know what sites YOU guys have been looking at? LOL.
Quick question, “Don’t you have to visit one of those sights to trigger the porn ads in the e-mail box?”.
Can they arrive without ever have visited an adult site?
Nope, spammers get their email addresses from a number sources.
Apart from adult sites, spammers use crawlers to go through websites to find email addresses (like the bikesport@ameritech.net found in the source of the front page of www.bikesportmichigan.com), through newsgroups such as r.s.t., and through online forms and blogs (don’t know how well protected the email addresses are on slowtwitch)
The other way that they get them is just by buying a mailing list from a reputable source - lots of sites are happy to pass your email address on to others - you do check that ‘privacy’ box when you buy something online don’t you?
Bottom line is that any email address you use on the Internet is exposed - one of the best ways to handle it is keep your email address that you give to friends strictly separate from the email address you use on websites. My public email address gets about 130 spams per day now.
Another way to handle this is to NEVER post an email address as a live link on a website, and even when listing, make it such that a person could easily figure it out - but an automated script would get it wrong “tomd_at_bikesport_dot_com” etc. Hell, you can even have a line immediately below to instruct which parts need to be replaced with what in order to make it work, for the benefit on less internet savvy people.
<< one of the best ways to handle it is keep your email address that you give to friends strictly separate from the email address you use on websites. My public email address gets about 130 spams per day now. >>
Tried that, but my friends keep sending me those “reply and AOL will give you $1000” chain mails, so now my private email gets around 130 spams a day too. Thankfully I can program, so I wrote a little program that deletes all the spam before I ever download it.
A lot of “free” software you install from the Internet will come with Spyware that rewrites your source code and gives you all sorts of unseemely popups that invade your computer. One of the worst is the Kazaa file sharing software. There are free and pay-for Ad ware and spy ware removers that will purge these from your system, but you have to be careful what you delete cause you can erase code that affects your operating system. Bottom line, if a free download seems too good to be true, or you don’t feel like reading the fine print, don’t download it.
I use Yahoo! for my web based email with their SPAM protection option. I don’t get any SPAM (2 years now).
Using Hotmail and Earthlink I had horrible SPAM problems. I set up an account for my 8 year old son with parental controls and he got porn SPAM from both msn and Earthlink. After we had the discussion of why some men may want larger penises, I switched to Yahoo!.
