Joe's Random Ramblings

Symantec and Microsoft killed another spam Botnet. That explains why my weekly received spam count went from over 600 to 100 in the last 2 weeks... I suspected a shutdown of some botnet. This is the confirmation. I have seen more blog spam recently,… more »

Since I last wrote about Facebook's lack of an abuse address, there seems to have been a significant development. Last Friday, yet another idiot signed up with the Brazilian Facebook site, and immediately went to send out friend requests to some 80 peo… more »

Facebook doesn't like to receive emails. They have an abuse@facebook.com address, but to actual abuse complaints, they respond with a completely idiotic boilerplate response: Thanks for your email. We're streamlining how we receive feedback to be ab… more »

I have posted about this stupid Congressperson from Massachusetts before. She is back at it again, sending her stupid political spam messages to somebody in California, when her district is on the other side of the country... What an idiot. Why did the… more »

The Bush family apparently also buys email addresses. That makes them spammers. They sent me this turd: Dear Danny, Your generous support through our years in the White House meant so much to President Bush and to me. George based his Presidency o… more »