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In preparing my recent big upgrade to this site, I found that the following pages didn't quite carry the same informational "throw weight" that they used to have; therefore, I've pruned them out of the main site. However, I couldn't bear to get rid of them altogether (and also didn't want to break any external links to them), so I've given them each a catered luncheon and a gold watch (a spamvertised replica, natch) and sent them here.

Obsolete Classic Spams

These Classic Spams were pretty good in their day, but they just don't cut the muster anymore. Now, you can find them relaxing in the dayroom playing Bingo or watching soap operas on the new plasma TV I won from MailCompanyX.

• Big Bazooms spam
  • An old message showing the distaff counterpart to penis enlargement spam, although since I haven't gotten any in years, it would appear that the ladies are a bit smarter about spam offers than we men. The perp used nonstandard ports in its website URLs, otherwise nothing special.
• Pardon, Mr. Chickenboner, your directory is showing!
  • Spammer leaves his web server insecure, which permits us to find out that he hasn't always been in the mortgage business. So, spammers are stupid and dishonest, what else is new?
• Oldie but grody: mailback spam
  • An example of mailback spam, which is very seldom seen anymore these days.
• Good clean humor
  • Ho-hum. A cheap trick to to get you to signal to spammers that your e-mail address is in use. Modern spammers don't care whether you use it or not, they mail to it anyway. Nothing much else to see here.
• Not spam? I'll be the judge of that, thank you.
  • Work-at-home chickenboner includes a lecture on what he thinks is (and isn't) spam, then enlists Jesus Christ to back him up.
• What? A mortgage spammer lying? Who knew?
  • An early mortgage spam that assures us that it is making a legitimate offer. Aren't they all!
• Can I interest you in some spam?
  • Spammer sends spam to ask whether I want to be on a spam list. There's something paradoxical in that somewhere, I think, but I haven't worked it out. Anyway, this racket was DOA, thanks apparently to quick response by the ISP concerned.
• The White-Hat Spammer
  • Charmingly inept attempt to get naive anti-spammers to give up their money (via PayPal, yet). Nothing much more unusual here, although I still don't know how he got hold of my SpamCop address.
• How to be seen
  • A really old Classic Spam showing the nearly-lost "art" of open-relay spamming, and why it was never a very good idea.
• We didn't send this
  • Yes, you did too.
• Want Poof? (sic)
  • I don't get many messages like this one (promoting spam mailing services) anymore.

Classic Spams — dead or missing in action

The following pages describe spam operations that appear to have been exposed to crucifixes, doused with garlic cloves, impaled with wooden stakes, dragged into the sunlight, and burned. Maybe they'll no longer come back to haunt us (but, then again, Dracula always seemed to manage it).

• Dr. Richard Garfield presents WordOfMouth.info (et. al.)
  • Doc Garfield (or someone using that nom de net) ran this bit of low-grade extortion for several years, mainly from PacBell mail and web servers.
• EZmaintenance software
  • This clueless bunch thought that the potential market for fleet logistics management software included everyone, down to my white-haired granny at her old WebTV. And, they took every possible opportunity to remind us about it. The CEO apologized, but what he seemed most sorry about was having been caught.
• Kingdom Ventures Incorprated and your church's website.
  • This company was once touted as a new-generation merger of e-business and evangelical Christianity, but someone since seems to have come by to drive the moneychangers from the temple.
• GiantRewards tassel-loafer spam
  • One of America's oldest and most respected firms in its field gets taken in by a spam house. Fortunately, it hasn't happened again, and the spammers responsible seem to have folded their tents (the decline in "mainsleaze" spam may be one of the genuine triumphs of the CAN SPAM act).
• Septic tank spam
  • Pretty boring chickenboner spam, really, but quaintly illiterate; I was getting it pretty steadily there for awhile, but the perps seem to have been flushed from the bowl.

Retired information pages

These pages were getting a bit unwieldy to read (and to maintain), and also had some errors that needed correcting. Nevertheless, I have put them in the attic although I don't have plans to update them.

• All-in-one tools page
  • I've replaced this single page with a sidebar website that describes network tools in greater detail (and corrects some errors), and is (I hope) a bit more easily laid-out for the reader.
• Anatomy of an e-mail
  • I've replaced this single long (and somewhat error-riddled) page with separate pages focusing on the overall transmission methods for e-mail, a "close-up" on a single SMTP handoff transaction. You can also find detailed info on the structure of e-mail messages by looking at my sidebar site on analyzing and reporting spam.

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