1996-12-24 - Let’s write a good Usenet spambot

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From: “Ross Wright” <rwright@adnetsol.com>
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Message Hash: c7df7d5407267b96acec48dd8a085f901de403655fe20ce6444664175a139d2b
Message ID: <199612242133.NAA08613@adnetsol.adnetsol.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-12-24 21:33:57 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 13:33:57 -0800 (PST)

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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
Message-ID: <199612242133.NAA08613@adnetsol.adnetsol.com>
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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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Ross Wright
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