Everyone knows that spammers are the scum of the earth. They claim to run legitimate businesses and they claim to comply with users that ‘opt-out’, but the truth is that if you opt-out of their mailing list, it is likely that you will get placed on a ‘hotlist’ that consists of email addresses that real human beings actually check. This is why I never opt-out of spam emails.

Typically a good spam blocker like spamassassin will get about 99% of spam anyway, so it’s not really a big deal for me. I generally get 1-2 spam emails a day that make it thru spamassassin, a rate which I find to be quite good, actually.

What I find absolutely hilarious is that spammers really are like big bullies who can sure dish it out, but boy do they ever get riled up when the joke is on them.

Take Blue Security, for example. They offer a service where you load a small client on your PC and it helps you opt-out of spam lists. Normally a few people opt out of spam lists and the spammers love it. They get to collect email addresses of users actually read their spam and try to get rid of it. The opt-outs are random and sporadic, and not really a problem…but this is where Blue Security gets interesting. It handles the opt-outs for you, and it does it on EVERY spam you get. In addition, Blue Security supposedly coordinates the opt-outs so that they blast the spammers all at once! This creates some real hassles for spammers and they sure don’t like it. It bothers them enough that they tried to take down the Blue Security web site, and for a while, they did. Blue Security is back now, and you can be sure that their methods are effective if they are pissing off spammers this much! The beauty of this system is that the more spam the spammers send, the harder their own servers get hit with Blue Security opt-outs. I should mention that what Blue Security is doing is completely legitimate under the CAN-SPAM legislation guidelines.

One of the spammers that was involved in the attack on Blue Security wrote to Wired.com and his comments sure reeked of LITTLE GIRLY CRYBABY WHINING. Yeah, like anyone is going to feel sorry for a spammer.

I find it absolutely HILARIOUS that spammers are perfectly happy to dish out spam all day long and annoy people with unwanted junk mail, but the moment that people start to defend themselves against the spammers with the help of an ally like Blue Security, those same spammers cry “FOUL!” and claim that Blue Security is “hurting their business”.

All I can say to those poor little spammers is: BOO FRIGGIN’ HOO