Saint Aardvark's Journal: thebulkclub.com

So a while back, Slashdot posted a story about TheBulkClub.com, an online forum for heathen cowfucking spammer scum ("Suppose you were a lying, sociopathic thief. And suppose you were a spammer. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain) that, sadly, left its membership list and other goodies exposed.

Being the good citizen that I am, I posted a reply that, I flatter myself, was both informative and helpful: it pointed the way to several mirrors of the information, including one on my own site.

Well, what do I receive the other day but this charming email:

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:23:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: EmailSupplyNET <[e-mail]>
Subject: Question about website
To: [e-mail]

Hey, I like (part) of your website, http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com It's informative.

There was something on your site about "thebulkclub.com"

Did you create that site for them or something? I run an email list site and am trying to contact them for advertising on their
forums/boards...

Any ideas/help?

Thanks in advance,

Thanks,
www.EmailSupply.net
[e-mail]
877.426.6636

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It's quite the site. They offer a sample list -- 4MB of email addresses, meant to be a sample of the up to 14 million you can buy. I must warn you, it would be wrong to run this command:

while [ true ] ; do wget http://www.emailsupply.net/sample.txt -O /dev/null ; done

So don't do that. But my question is, what should I do? I'm open to ideas, suggestions, thoughts, plans and dicta.

Hmmm.

[Alioth]

I have this server in this data centre with 14 gig-E connections going to it, and full access to a 100Mbit/sec port...and 1.2TB/month of bandwidth.

Nahhh...nah, I couldn't run that script. Well. I might accidentally run it because I forgot what wget did, and forget to Ctrl-C it....

Hmmm...

[ryanr]

Inform him that, yes, you run the site, and he can send the money right over.

Re:Hmmm...

[sillypixie]

... and then subscribe his email address to every list in existence. I can help you with that too. I wonder if you can add phone numbers to opt-in telemarketer lists online...

It leads to an interesting question - do spammers use spam filters? Betcha they do. Oh, the humanity.

Pixie

Re:Hmmm...

[msim]

im sure there are quite a number of sites out there that you could just visit, and for some reason, the *only* contact email you can think of is his, now, does that sound reasonable to you? sounds fair to me!