Fun_People Archive
1 Feb
JASBITS on SPAM and TOTO

Date: Wed,  1 Feb 95 00:08:31 PST
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: JASBITS on SPAM and TOTO

Excerpted_from: JASBITS_7    (31-JAN-95)
From: "James A. Squires" <jsquires@CERF.NET>

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ITEM_7.09 --- MORON THE SPAM MIESTERS
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       "I'm pink... therefore, I'm spam".

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    | ,dP""8a "888888b,  d8b    "888b  ,888" |
    | 88b   "  888  d88 dPY8b    88Y8b,8888  |
    | `"Y8888a 888ad8P'dPaaY8b   88 Y88P888  |
    | a,   Y88 888    dP    Y8b  88  YP 888  |
    | `"8ad8P'a888a  a88a;*a888aa88a   a888a |
    |                ;*;;;;*;;;*;;;*,,       |
    |        _,---'':::';*;;;*;;;*;;*d;,     |
    |     .-'      ::::::::::';*;;*;dII;     |
    |   .' ,<<<,.  :::::::::::::::ffffff`.   |
    |  / ,<<<<<<<<,::::::::::::::::fffffI,\  |
    | .,<<<<<<<<<<I;:::::::::::::::ffffKIP", |
    | |<<<<<<<<<<dP;,?>;,::::::::::fffKKIP | |
    | ``<<<<<<<dP;;;;;\>>>>>;,::::fffKKIPf ' |
     |  \ `mYMMV?;;;;;;;\>>>>>>>>>,YIIPP"` /  |
    |   `. "":;;;;;;;;;i>>>>>>>>>>>>>,  ,'   |
    |     `-._``":;;;sP'`"?>>>>>=========.   |
    |         `---..._______...|<[Hormel |   |
    |                          `========='   |
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[ Many net.souls debated a new term to replace our beloved Spam... ]

A sampling from the Usenet:

>"Cantered".  As in "that message has cantered itself into 5,000
>newsgroups..."

Actually, to me `Siegel' sounds like a unit.
One could, for example, define as a unit of spammage:

  1 Siegel (Sg) = spam in 1000 newsgroups.

  Thus, the 50 group threshold for spam detection could be
  expressed as 50 mSg.

  snyder@fnald0.fnal.gov

DAVID JORDAN: Editorial in Monday's Chronicle            Tue, 3 Jan 1995
> I want to bring to everybody's attention an editorial appearing on page
> A19 of Monday's (2 January) San Francisco Chronicle written by Martha S.
> Siegel (yes, that Siegel, the one of Cantor and Siegel infamy), entitled
> "Anarchy, Chaos on the Internet Must End."  (??)  I encourage those
> interested in the future of the Internet to read it.

DAVID ADAMS (vera2@netcom.com) wrote:
: Give it up, spam is just too good of a word for spamming.  However,
: I would be all for the use of the term "Crazy Martha" to describe
: trying to justify the act of spamming.  I.E. " don't be such a
: Crazy Martha"!
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ITEM_7.11 --- STRANGE BUT TRUE
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EVERY NUCLEAR BOMB EVER DETONATED (Check here before buying new land)
 Gopher to wealaka.okgeosurvey1.gov / Catalog of Known Nuclear Explosions

WHISTLE-BLOWING SOFTWARE
 Now there's a software program that literally blows the whistle when it
 senses an employee playing a computer game on company time.  GameCop can
 be programmed to recognize more than 100 games. (Info Week 30JAN95 - EDU)

COMPUTERIZED GARBAGE CAN AS BIG BROTHER
 The Associated Press reports that the town of Petersburg, Alaska is in-
 stituting a computerized garbage system, where each can contains a small
 computer that measures the volume of waste. The truck then downloads that
 information into another computer, and the household is charged only for
 the amount of garbage it generates. (Inovation_19DEC94)

ENCRYPTION BLUES CONTINUES
 The secret RC4 algorithm used for encryption by RSA Data Security was
 posted on the Internet. Once public, it was studied by other programmers,
 who designed improvements, making it faster and more efficient. (Netsurf)

A NEW TOY TO FEAR
 Soon Nintendo will be selling "Virtual Boy".  A 32-bit system with
 a two-eyed display using 256 shades ranging from red to black.  Can
 you picture rows and rows of boys leaning forward into their system's
 head sockets, twitching and moaning as they feed like some nightmarish
 brood of piglets?  [ It gives even me the creeps ]

CANCELBOT DERAILS ONLINE PROMO
 Messages promoting "Netchat," a new book by Michael Wolff, have been
 unceremoniously wiped out by someone calling him/herself "Cancelmoose."
 The vigilante, who used a program called a cancelbot, worked through a
 computer in Finland that enables a mail sender to remain anonymous, and
 claims to have performed similar services more than a dozen times in the
 past. (WSJ 12/20/94 B7-EDU)

 Also a certain religious group has been cancelling their critic's
 postings, and even tried to globally "rmgroup" at all net sites.
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	Copyright (c) 1995  James A. Squires

© 1995 Peter Langston