Would you believe that a company which supposedly has an anti-spam policy of their own has cancelled Downstrike's account with them as of August 31, 2000 because he has published his negative opinion of spam on this page? Fine for you HotRate.com. Now I know which side of the slice your butter is really on!

Here's my latest clue for the clueless: If you must send me an HTML message, do it properly! I am NOT going to hunt through raw HTML tags to try to find the text of your Spam! If you don't know how to do it properly, and can't be bothered to research it, then go do something you do know. Sure, if that's all you know, then go right on picking your nose! (Oh, but next time, you just might want to consider shutting off the web cam first.)

Here's a clue for all the clueless people out there with their bulk mailers and finely tuned "targeted", "safe" email lists: Just because it's legal, or you can cite legislation written by some clueless politician, or some bill which didn't even pass, doesn't mean it's not Spam! And the rest of us are sick of you insulting our intelligence by telling us that your Unsolicited Commercial Email is not Spam!

Regardless of what government has failed to regulate, unsolicited commercial e-mail remains as ineffective and offensive a waste of internet and recipient resources as ever. Untargeted, excessively lengthy, or untranslated foreign language email solicitations and chain letters especially waste internet and recipient resources.

"System administrators from all over the US met in California at the Third Spam Roundtable to discuss the growing Spam problem. The results were not encouraging. Between 15% and 30% of the e-mail that America Online receives is spam. Most large Internet service providers have four to six people dedicated to combating the problem; unsolicited commercial e-mail costs these companies roughly $1 million each month, which translates to $1 to $2 per subscriber per month."

That we are paying $1 to $2 per subscriber per month certainly contradicts the ridiculous argument by spammers that "spam doesn't cost anything, so what's the big deal?" Why would anyone want to pay $1 to $2 a month to receive spam?

Targeted you say? Safe? I'm a Christian, (the kind who believes what he reads at 1 Corinthians 6:13-20), but you insist on offering me everything from, "The Hottest Sex on The Face of The Earth", to horse semen! Okay, I realize some of you have really @*$?-ed up the planet but! On its face?!?! (Terrible pun!) I've heard of bestiality before, so I can almost begin to pretend to consider the possibility of wondering whether I should try to understand about the horse semen, but this face job on Mother Earth is a bit much!

Does this mean that your idea of kiddie porn is children digging holes in the dirt, (mother earth), and playing in the mud? I'm horrified at what entertainment I would have provided as a child, for a person like you! Did you just give me a clue to what it is about children that turns child molesters on?

Please stop sending me offers for adult webmasters! If I wanted to be an adult webmaster, I would already be one.

Okay, okay! You do what you will with your own body, but do you really need me to know about it?

The Straw That Broke My Camel's Back

...was the vandal who repeatedly sent out the HTML-based message titled, INVESTIGATE YOUR NEIGHBOR in mid-December, 1999. When this message came up in Netscape Messenger, it generated so many Javascript errors that it crashed Downstrike's PC. (Other vandals have repeated this idiocy since then.)

That was when Downstrike began actively defending his PC against Spam. Shortly afterward, he learned of SpamCop and began using it. SpamCop makes reporting Spam easier, but Downstrike is even more thorough. SpamCop may report your Spam to your URL forwarding service, but Downstrike will report it to your destination server as well, so take heed!

In your efforts to brainwash people to believe you're not spamming, instead of linking to it in your emails as proof that you are not Spamming, you should have read the web page at http://www.senate.gov/~murkowski/commercialemail/S771index.html while it was still there, because that page called what you're doing Spamming and said that you need to stop doing it.

All you've done is confirm that you're dishonest. Why would anyone want to do business with you after you've done that?

Just look at all the free advertising opportunities on this page! Why would anyone need to send Unsolicited Commercial Email with this much free advertising available? Guess what? If the free advertising isn't enough for you, most of them will sell you more!

Start your own Leading Edge Classified Ad site, displaying your banner, and reminding submitters by email to visit your site, for free.

Start your own CRAYON cyber-newspaper, and link it to your sites, for free.