| my friends and i have used net send for years at the university we attend. i was shocked to find out that people have began using such a useful tool as a means of mass advertising. i would like to point out to the readers out there that these people CLAIM to pay thousands, and if they are foolish enough they actually may, but in fact anyone with an extra 15 minutes can send these spam messages to every ip in the world for free. it is not difficult, it takes nothing more than 5 or 6 lines of code in a bat file to do it, we commonly use this to send messages over the networks at school, but we limit our message to the people it is relivant to. And as for the t.v. analogy, when you turn off the t.v., it doesn't store up all the commecials we missed and force us to watch them next time we use the t.v., as these annoying messages do when i log onto my computer. If these spamers feel they are not doing any wrong, why don't they add their ip to the end of the message so we can send them a "friendly reply". and yes, you can turn off net send, but for someone who uses it nearly every day as a part of your education, turning it off is not a feasible solution. and for those of you out there who like like to try some revenge, you should download a program called "angry ip scanner" , you can use it to discover the ip of these spamers and send them a few messages of your own, if you would like to know how, e-mail me at Bcat22@hotmail.com, and for those of you who are wondering, i delete over 200 spam e-mail messages a day, so use a subject in your message or i'll never see it. Ryan Shawnee State University Computer engineering dept. |
Net Send - Yet Another Type of Spam