From: “Ross Wright” <rwright@adnetsol.com>
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-12-24 21:33:57 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 13:33:57 -0800 (PST)
From: "Ross Wright" <rwright@adnetsol.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 13:33:57 -0800 (PST)
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Subject: Let's write a good Usenet spambot
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On or About 24 Dec 96 at 13:33, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
>
> Ross, let's write a good Usenet spambot. The ones out there suck
> because they go through newsgroups alphabetically and post the same
> crap all at once. Then they get detected and cancelled by assholes
> like Chris Lewis.
Yeah, those assholes are getting in the way of my first amendment
right to spam the fuck out of anyone and everyone I fucking want
to!!!!
My hero, Larry Flint, says "The price of freedom of speech is
tolerance of other people's views.: So everyone can Fucking
tolerate as much spam as a spamming robot can be told to spew!!!
>
> A good spambot would cover all unmoderated newsgroups, look for
> traffic, pretend to follow up on postings from actual people, say
> something on-topic, and post your message, but vary it randomly, so
> it's almost never the same.
Dr., this is a stroke of genius!! I think we should start on this
immediately! No one would even know it was spam, or a spamming
robot!!!
>
> I think we can make a pretty good program. "Cypher punks" don't
> write code, but we do.
Fuck them if they can't take a joke!!! Let's write some code! I am
cc:ing this to a couple others who helped me write the "link
following" web-robot I am currently using! Let's get on this usenet
thing NOW!!!!
Ross
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