Head & Rotor VE(CHINA-LuTong) 2/23

[Marvin Bellamy]

Anyone see the slashdo article on Chinese spammers.  Their ISPs are 
worthless admins, so  a lot of people have resorted to just filtering 
their IP blocks.

DCT Jared Smith wrote:

>>Is it just me, or is this REALLY annoying?
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>Well, you could look at it in the obvious way, which you
>just did, or you could see it as a window into Chinese
>entrepreneurial efforts which you would normally not
>see.
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>Here we have something beautiful, which is someone who is
>spamming wide and far to sell something so obscure that
>it's really funny. It's not like the X-Cam, with its
>tantalizing soft-porn sell, no, it's a classic case of "All
>your base are us." I've received it in my personal e-mail,
>and also on the kclug list, so I know it's a wide-spectrum
>spam.
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>I think, to assuage you of the annoying things in your life
>I might say, "Worry not over those things you have no control."
>In other words, to me its annoying to see you spam the kclug
>list with comments about how annoying spam is. Tell me
>something I _don't_ know.
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>Lastly, I like this spam particularly because it shows
>how Chinese manufacturers are increasingly going to be using
>the Internet to cut out the middleman. They have in the past
>been hired by Bosch to build rotors. Now, having the
>skill to build Bosch-quality rotors, they are seeking to
>use the Internet to contact customers directly. This is
>great! I think this particular spam is historical, and
>though I anticipate if they succeed, we'll be targetted
>by billions of spammers from China, I gotta commend these
>guys for their leap of faith into American cyberspace...
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>$.02
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>-Jared
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