[SpamCop-List] Re: OT Just for grins, here's a cute one

[Paul Johnson]

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"Pop" <nobody at spamcop.net> writes:

> Everyone "should be" configured so that's not a problem, but ... 
> gee, you're tough on the newbies and neophytes who just don't 
> know any better.

You say it like there's something wrong with that instead of a
reasonable expectation.  After all, we don't let people unlicensed
drive motor vehicles on the road (and in my state, you also need to
carry your own insurance to drive).  Likewise, people should have some
idea as to what they're doing online before exposing themselves to the
world.

> No, it's not Fred Langa's fault, nor is it MSNs fault.  Entirely, 
> anyway.    Since you did all that reading, I went back to see 
> just where the spayware was coming from:  It's coming from 
> snipurl.  A little more investigation showed that snipurl.com 
> first deposits (or tries to) a cookie so it knows when/where you 
> went.  And then, apparently, I didn't completely check this out, 
> it ALSO is notified when you LEAVE that site/s they're 
> monitoring!   Else I wouldn't see another attempt when I left the 
> site.  As a result, innocent parties are suffering for snipurl's 
> not so covert stupidity, as in MSN and TeM.

Just out of curiosity, do you have the same problem with logfile
parsers that accomplish the same thing, without setting any cookies on
your system?  Example output from one popular open source parser
(awstats): http://ursine.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/awstats.pl
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