Re: <nettime> The Curse of Spam, Historicized

["katerina" <knd@hol.gr>]

dear netizens,
I recently came across a so-called "talking-heads theory". Does any of you
know more about this theory, like who formulated it, what it is about, where
it is being used?
thank you in advance,
katerina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Sterling" <bruces@well.com>
To: <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
Sent: Σάββατο, 3 Φεβρουαρίου 2001 5:44 πμ
Subject: <nettime> The Curse of Spam, Historicized


> This is http://keithlynch.net/spamline.html
>
> Here is Keith Lynch's timeline of spam-related events, terms,
> concepts, people, and sites, according to DejaNews and my own
> archives.  There is more about e-mail spam than usenet spam, since I'm
> more interested in battling the former.  Plenty isn't on here simply
> because it would be a hassle to search for it, e.g. when various
> spam-related lawsuits were started or won.  Gradual transitions are
> also of course not shown, even though they're more important than
> anything that is shown.  For instance the fact that there are
> finally no major sites which allow spamming, which knowingly host
> spamvertised web pages, or which tell complainers to register on the
> spammer's remove list.  No honest and rational person still advocates
> remove lists.  Please e-mail me (kfl@keithlynch.net) any suggestions or
> comments.  No spam please.
>
> Year   Term
>   Month
>
> 85  8  Chain letters via e-mail (quickly stamped out until 1993)
>
> 91  2  Craig Shergold wants cards
> 91  2  Craig Shergold doesn't want cards
>
> 93  6  The $5 -> $50,000 chain letter on news, some titled MAKE.MONEY.FAST
> 93  9  The $5 -> $50,000 chain letter on news mentioning Dave Rhodes
>
> 94  3  "MMF" (any chain letter, after classic subject line
> "MAKE.MONEY.FAST")
> 94  3  unsolicited commercial e-mail (now called e-mail spam)
> 94  4  The "green card lawyers" (Canter & Siegel) newsgroup spam
> 94  4  "spam" (meaning mass sending of netnews)
> 94 11  CancelMoose
> 94 12  "spam" (meaning mass sending of mail to legitimate mailing lists)
> 94 12  The "good times" e-mail virus hoax
>
> 95  1  "Krazy" Kevin Lipsitz (notorious newsgroup spammer)
> 95  3  "velveeta" (crossposting an article to too many newsgroups)
> 95  4  "Briedbart Index" to decide which newsgroup posts are spam
> 95  4  Jeff Slaton (notorious spammer, "the Spam King")
> 95  5  Floodgate (spamware)
> 95  5  news.admin.net-abuse newsgroup
> 95  6  "spamvertise" (to advertise via spam)
> 95  6  "spamware" (spamming software)
> 95  6  UDP (Usenet Death Penalty -- all newsgroup postings from site are
> nuked)
> 95  7  "spam" (meaning mass sending of mail to all addresses one can
> scrounge)
> 95  7  NoCeM
> 95  8  Sanford Wallace (uber-spammer -- cyberpromo, savetrees, ispam,
>        answerme, spamford, etc)
> 95  8  List of 2 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
> 95 10  abuse@ addresses
> 95 11  "remove list" (the first (?) of many that were intended to be
> universal)
> 95 11  "LART"
> 95 11  Cyber Promotions, aka CyberPromo (notorious spam outfit)
>
> 96  1  "rogue domain"
> 96  1  Freedom Knights ("anti-censorship" pro-spam group)
> 96  3  Spamblocks (e.g. REMOVE.TO.REPLY) added to addesses to foil
spammers
> 96  3  Yuri Rutman (notorious spammer)
> 96  4  "UCE" (meaning Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)
> 96  4  Lightning Bolt (spamware)
> 96  4  X-No-Archive: header lines
> 96  5  Walt Rines (notorious spammer -- Quantcom, IEMMC, etc)
> 96  6  IDP (Internet Death Penalty -- all packets from site are nuked)
> 96  6  Whack-a-Mole (spammers who quickly lose accounts but keep
reappearing
>        at different sites)
> 96  7  "spamhaus" (a spamming site)
> 96  7  news.admin.net-abuse.email newsgroup
> 96  7  List of 7 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
> 96  8  "UBE" (meaning Unsolicited Bulk E-mail)
> 96  9  "Spamford" (nickname for uber-spammer Sanford Wallace)
> 96  9  "munging" (another term for spamblocking)
> 96 10  "spamblock"
> 96 10  Ready-Aim-Fire (spamware)
> 96 10  List of 11 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
> 96 11  "Four Reports" chain letter mentioning Christopher Erickson
> 96 11  "Teergrube" (a relay which discards everything) proposed
> 96 12  Dave Mustachi (notorious spammer -- Floodgate spamware)
> 96 12  Earthstar (rogue domain)
> 96 12  Nancynet (rogue domain)
> 96 12  E-mail Blaster (spamware)
>
> 97  1  Quantcom (rogue domain)
> 97  1  Extractor Pro (spamware)
> 97  3  "open relay"
> 97  3  Dan Huffnal (notorious spammer)
> 97  3  Stealth (spamware)
> 97  4  IEMMC (e-mail spammers' organization, claimed to have "universal"
>        remove list)
> 97  5  CAUCE (an organization that favors a law banning UCE but not UBE)
> 97  5  Smith bill (would ban UCE but not UBE)
> 97  6  Spam hearings at the FTC
> 97  6  "SMTP hijacking" (first use was apparently in a message from *me*)
> 97  6  "relay rape"
> 97  6  List of 31 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
> 97  6  abuse-email@ and abuse-news@ addresses
> 97  7  "Picklejar" (nickname for spammer Walt Rines)
> 97  7  mallet (weapon metaphorically used against spammers)
> 97  7  BulkMate (spamware)
> 97  7  List of 57 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
> 97  8  "relay hijacking"
> 97  8  Goldrush (spamware)
> 97  9  "Four Reports" chain letter mentioning Karen Liddell
> 97  9  E-mail Platinum (spamware)
> 97 10  AGIS (last major spam-friendly site) kicks off CyberPromo,
Quantcom,
>        Nancynet, and other spammers.  IEMMC dead.  Whack-a-Mole epoch
> begins.
> 97 10  Joe Melle (notorious spammer -- NOIC, TSF-industries, etc)
> 97 10  RBL (Realtime Blackhole List) of spam sites, run by Paul Vixie
> 97 10  Golden Mallet award
> 97 12  List of 80 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
>
> 98  1  "E-Rage" (what spammers claim spam opponents suffer from)
> 98  1  "Lumber Cartel" (what spammers claim spam opponents are being
>        paid by)
> 98  2  Rapidfire (spamware)
> 98  3  Express Mail Server (spamware)
> 98  3  remove-list.com (yet another "universal" remove list, was
>        finally disconnected in September but is still (10/98) often being
>        touted in spams).
> 98  4  ISOC (Internet Society) meeting on spam
> 98  4  Netcom (last major holdout) finally agrees to stop hosting
>        spamvertised web sites
> 98  6  "Murking" (spamming while citing the proposed Murkowski
>        spam law as "proof" that this spam is ok).
> 98  7  HyperOrbit (spamware)
> 98  7  List of 91 million e-mail addresses offered for sale
> 98  8  "404 compliant" said of a spammer's web page which has been
>        deleted, analogous to murkers claiming to be "301 compliant"
> 98 10  SAFEeps, yet another universal remove list.  Sigh.
> 98 11  Dotless numeric web sites (e.g. http://3448157907/xx12),
>        to make tracing harder.
>
> 99 11  DMA announces a new global remove list (e-mps.org).  Idiots.
>
> Also see the "official" news.admin.net-abuse jargon file:
>
> http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/ip/freenet/subs/complaints/spam/jargon.txt
>
> and my net timeline http://keithlynch.net/timeline.html
> which is similar to this page but without the focus on spam.
>
> Last updated November 25th, 1999
>
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