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The Ultimate Spamfilter: Russian Mafia

Found [url=http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/2157244]this gem[/url] today on [url=http://www.slashdot.org]Slashdot[/url]:

[i]”Apparently the current champion of v1*gr4 spamming solicited some of the wrong email boxes. Alexy Tolstokozhev was recently found murdered in his palatial spam-bought estate near Moscow. The implications of this hands on method of system administration are staggering.”[/i]

Best quote in one of the comments, noting a drop-off in spam this week: “While I don’t advocate the killing of spammers, it’s hard to argue with results.”

Hate to admit it, but I have to agree!

[b]EDIT:[/b] This story turned out to be a [url=http://taint.org/2007/10/11/203243a.html]hoax[/url]. I guess it was too good to be true! 🙁