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Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:00 pm

I don't often get any spam e-mail at all, so on the rare occasions I see something in my 'spam' folder I tend to check it out just to see what it is.

Well I did see something in it today, but I wasn't expecting anything like this...
People of the world!
We are your neighbours, friends, lovers, colleagues, and comrades.
You know us.
We have lived together and fought together - whether for labour rights, against Sharia, for civil rights, asylum rights, against executions and stonings, against cultural relativism, against faith schools and apostasy laws, for freedom of expression, rationalism and secularism, against political Islam and US militarism.
Today, our revolution - the one we have been preparing and waiting for - has begun in Iran.
We need you to support it full force.
The battle you see unfolding on the streets of Iran is not about the farce of an election, though that is what the western media wants you to think. Everyone knows that elections in Iran are anything but. In fact, people are taking advantage of the intensified infighting between the regime's factions to raise their own demands and they - like the rest of us - want the Islamic regime to go.
And it has to go.
Thirty years of medievalism and brutality is enough.
If nothing else, one thing is clear.
The mass movement that is going to bring this regime in Iran to its knees and break the back of the political Islamic movement internationally has begun.
Your support and solidarity will strengthen this revolutionary movement. Come out and condemn the regime and its brutality; exert pressure on western governments to politically isolate the regime. Join us in front of the Islamic regime's embassies across the globe to call for them to be shut down. Call for the prosecution of all those involved in the killings, for the immediate release of all detainees and political prisoners, unconditional freedoms, including for organisation, strike and protest, an end to compulsory veiling, a living wage and an end to sexual apartheid. Send your messages to the protesting people of Iran to be read on our 24 hour New Channel TV station. Support us and our party, the Worker-communist Party of Iran.
Mark our words; like racial apartheid in the former South Africa, a regime of sexual apartheid can and will be relegated to the dustbins of history.
The future is ours.
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Mina Ahadi
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Bahram Soroush
Mahin Alipour
Afsaneh Vahdat
Abe Asadi
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For regular updates on people's protests in Iran, click here: http://worker-communistpartyofiran.blogspot.com/
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That's got to be the most interesting e-mail I've ever received.
I don't know who the 'Worker-communist Party of Iran' are, and I probably wouldn't agree with all their policies, but given who they're up against - good luck to them.

Go kick some Ayatollah-arse guys!
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Post by FBM » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:29 pm

Clicking on spam just encourages the bastids. :nono:
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Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:36 pm

FBM wrote:Clicking on spam just encourages the bastids. :nono:
No responding to spam does.
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Post by FBM » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:40 pm

Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
FBM wrote:Clicking on spam just encourages the bastids. :nono:
No responding to spam does.
Oh. There must be a shitload of dudes out there who wish they had a bigger dick or could get a woody with the one they have. :banghead:
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Post by Pappa » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:42 pm

Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
FBM wrote:Clicking on spam just encourages the bastids. :nono:
No responding to spam does.
Actually, they way they set up the images in spam, just clicking on it really does encourage the bastards. They know you've received it from them when the image loads, and even selecting to not lad images doesn't always work as there are ways around it.
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Post by FBM » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:44 pm

Pappa wrote:
Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
FBM wrote:Clicking on spam just encourages the bastids. :nono:
No responding to spam does.
Actually, they way they set up the images in spam, just clicking on it really does encourage the bastards. They know you've received it from them when the image loads, and even selecting to not lad images doesn't always work as there are ways around it.
That's what I thought! Holy shit!? I was right? Damn. That doesn't happen very often. :shock:
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Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:45 pm

Pappa wrote:
Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
FBM wrote:Clicking on spam just encourages the bastids. :nono:
No responding to spam does.
Actually, they way they set up the images in spam, just clicking on it really does encourage the bastards. They know you've received it from them when the image loads, and even selecting to not lad images doesn't always work as there are ways around it.
Probably why my e-mail gives me the option of "view images and enable links", rather than just loading them automatically.
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Post by Pappa » Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:32 pm

Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
Pappa wrote:
Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
FBM wrote:Clicking on spam just encourages the bastids. :nono:
No responding to spam does.
Actually, they way they set up the images in spam, just clicking on it really does encourage the bastards. They know you've received it from them when the image loads, and even selecting to not lad images doesn't always work as there are ways around it.
Probably why my e-mail gives me the option of "view images and enable links", rather than just loading them automatically.
There are ways around that too.

If the data of the image is encrypted in the html content of the message itself (as base64 text), it can be loaded in a way that usually circumvents the email client's options. So if the message is selected and loads into the message window, there's a good chance the spammer will know your email address is real. They do this bit by having a long encrypted string in the images request, which contains a reference to you email address directly. Alternatively they could use some kind of id which was linked to your email address in their database. Either way would let them know the email address was valid and to keep sending you more.
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Post by AshtonBlack » Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:01 pm

Pappa wrote:
Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
Pappa wrote:
Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
FBM wrote:Clicking on spam just encourages the bastids. :nono:
No responding to spam does.
Actually, they way they set up the images in spam, just clicking on it really does encourage the bastards. They know you've received it from them when the image loads, and even selecting to not lad images doesn't always work as there are ways around it.
Probably why my e-mail gives me the option of "view images and enable links", rather than just loading them automatically.
There are ways around that too.

If the data of the image is encrypted in the html content of the message itself (as base64 text), it can be loaded in a way that usually circumvents the email client's options. So if the message is selected and loads into the message window, there's a good chance the spammer will know your email address is real. They do this bit by having a long encrypted string in the images request, which contains a reference to you email address directly. Alternatively they could use some kind of id which was linked to your email address in their database. Either way would let them know the email address was valid and to keep sending you more.
I knew it! You're this guy CLICK

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Post by Pappa » Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:02 pm

AshtonBlack wrote:I knew it! You're this guy CLICK
I wish. :roll:
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Post by AshtonBlack » Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:04 pm

Pappa wrote:
AshtonBlack wrote:I knew it! You're this guy CLICK
I wish. :roll:
Really? The guy's a tool.

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Post by Pappa » Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:23 pm

AshtonBlack wrote:
Pappa wrote:
AshtonBlack wrote:I knew it! You're this guy CLICK
I wish. :roll:
Really? The guy's a tool.
I bet he's a rich tool though. :hehe:
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Post by AshtonBlack » Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:29 pm

Pappa wrote:
AshtonBlack wrote:
Pappa wrote:
AshtonBlack wrote:I knew it! You're this guy CLICK
I wish. :roll:
Really? The guy's a tool.
I bet he's a rich tool though. :hehe:
Quite Possibly true. :(

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