From :- <http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=136991821300>
Posted on March 29, 2011.
From the hapless Andrew Brunner of 1999, to the insane Harry
Widdefield, to the clueless Bubba Catts, the narcissistic Tim Bolen,
and the many other buffoons I've forgotten, countless grunting
spammers have stumbled along down the same path as currently occupied
by the latest in the procession of IQ neanderthals, Andrew Stephens.
The path is well travelled and always has more or less this same
sequence of events. I'll label them below so that future spammers who
land in here thinking they're the first to take on 'the antis' can be
pointed to where they are in the "pass through NANAE and out through
the swinging doors, minus all your domains" sequence:
[A] Freshly terminated spammer finds NANAE and assumes NANAE is
Spamhaus. Spammer posts a declaration of his awesome greatness,
proclaims that the economy depends on his spam, announces that
anti-spam organizations are doomed and he's the revolutionary warrior
that will finish them.
[B] Spammer upset by all the laughter following his post, claims to
have a department of lawyers at his beck and call and that he's
working on a landmark lawsuit. Upset at the even louder laughter this
produces, Spammer claims he's reporting everyone to the FBI, FTC,
FCC, CIA and the Federation of Planets. Upset at the even louder
laughter this produces, Spammer claims to have an in with bigwigs on
Capitol Hill who will pass laws for him outlawing the use of
anti-spam filters.
[C] Spammer trying to figure out why everyone is falling about
laughing, begins to google for "Spamhaus" and finds demented
disinformation by other grunting spammers who've been down the exact
same path before him. Spammer triumphantly quotes the unhinged
mad-hatter propaganda, proclaiming "There's my proof!".
[D] Spammer upset at the ensuing howls of laughter, and pride hurt by
discovering his new-found friend is a certified fruit cake, sets up
yet-another "I-hate-Spamhaus" website and proudly announces the end
of Spamhaus will be brought about imminently by his "Anti-Spamhaus"
website which has now achieved 17 hits.
[E] Spammer googles a bit and discovers Linford lives on a houseboat
in the UK. Spammer discovers Linford owns an ISP, and the revelation
prompts a new effort to conjure up a conflict of interest. When the
logic escapes him, Spammer googles some more and discovers said ISP
is not in the UK... and neither is Linford... which prompts a new
effort to conjure up an image of tax evasion since people who don't
live in the UK should, spammer thinks, pay taxes where they don't
live, just to confound the taxman, instead of in the country where
they actually do reside. When that logic also fails, Spammer claims
it's not fair that Spamhaus can be wherever it wants and organize its
structure as it likes.
[F] When the spammer's efforts to tie felonious sins to Spamhaus fail,
spammer proclaims he is now working on a soopa-sekrit invention that
will bypass all spam filters, and/or claims to be about to release a
'blocklist of anti-spammers', and/or claims he's building his own
Intertube backbone so nobody can terminate him again.
[G] Having run the course of a few weeks which prompted only
hysterical laughter from the NANAE group, Spammer decides that NANAE
was not Spamhaus after-all and announces that although he is leaving
minus all the domains and IP space he came in with, he is leaving
with a moral victory anyway and that everyone will be very, very
sorry one day when he is elected President or he manages to file his
earth-shattering RICO lawsuit.
--
Steve Linford
The Spamhaus Project
http://www.spamhaus.org
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