Re: Your Via&gra Refill is Ready

Re: Your Via&gra Refill is Ready

[Ross Higson]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:51:15 +0000, "Dixie Stewart"
> <dstewart_pn@stackbin.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
> 
> 	Rhetorical question for the regulars...
> 
> 	For some reason C.L.Ada seems more heavily spammed than other
> c.l.* groups.
> 
> 	Has anyone proposed that the problem (or lure) is the name Ada
> being confused with the ADA (and not the dental association)? Taking the
> route that the "disabled" need viagra and other such help?
> 

Or perhaps the suppliers consider the average Ada programmer to be much 
older than those using other languages?

If so, will we soon start seeing spam for hearing aids, walking frames 
and retirement homes? :)

Re: Your Via&gra Refill is Ready

[CBFalconer]

Ross Higson wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>
>> Rhetorical question for the regulars...
>>
>> For some reason C.L.Ada seems more heavily spammed than other
>> c.l.* groups.
>>
>> Has anyone proposed that the problem (or lure) is the name Ada
>> being confused with the ADA (and not the dental association)?
>> Taking the route that the "disabled" need viagra and other such
>> help?
> 
> Or perhaps the suppliers consider the average Ada programmer to
> be much older than those using other languages?

Or some sort of spam distribution software is attracted by the
female name Ada.

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Re: Your Via&gra Refill is Ready

[Ludovic Brenta]

Dennis Lee Bieber writes:
> CBFalconer declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
>
>
>> Or some sort of spam distribution software is attracted by the
>> female name Ada.
>
> 	Dangerous woman then... nymphomaniac at least, force-feeding
> Viagra and related to her victims <G>

Or maybe it is just the sheer increase in traffic on this newsgroup in
recent months.  Maybe some spammers' web crawlers took notice and
concluded that Ada is a hot new topic?

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: Your Via&gra Refill is Ready

[Larry Kilgallen]

In article <87oejemjbd.fsf@insalien.org>, Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> writes:
> Dennis Lee Bieber writes:
>> CBFalconer declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
>>
>>
>>> Or some sort of spam distribution software is attracted by the
>>> female name Ada.
>>
>> 	Dangerous woman then... nymphomaniac at least, force-feeding
>> Viagra and related to her victims <G>
> 
> Or maybe it is just the sheer increase in traffic on this newsgroup in
> recent months.  Maybe some spammers' web crawlers took notice and
> concluded that Ada is a hot new topic?

Before I gave up reporting these, I consistently got the brush-off
from the responsible ISP saying that the problem was that someone
has an email list feeding into comp.lang.ada.  In general, spam
_software_ does not address newsgroups, so whoever is running that
email list is doing a lousy job of relaying _everything_ into the
newsgroup.  By contrast, the email list feeding into comp.os.vms
is filtered (presumably with DNSbls) to keep out the spam.

Re: Your Via&gra Refill is Ready

[Keith Thompson]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:51:15 +0000, "Dixie Stewart"
> <dstewart_pn@stackbin.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
>
> 	Rhetorical question for the regulars...
>
> 	For some reason C.L.Ada seems more heavily spammed than other
> c.l.* groups.

Because it's directly gatewayed from the comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
and comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org mailing lists.  Perhaps someone could
moderate the mailing lists, or at least filter the feed from the lists
to the newsgroup.

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