March 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Business Opportunities
by Mgt.tw 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

If this message cuts off, go to : www.geocities.com/wonka667/instructions.html Dear Friends & Future Millionaire: AS SEEN ON NATIONAL TV: Making over half million dollars every 4 to 5 months from your home for an investment of only $25 U.S. Dollars expense one time THANK'S TO THE COMPUTER AGE AND THE INTERNET ! ================================================== BE A MILLIONAIRE LIKE OTHERS WITHIN A YEAR!!! Before you say ''Bull'', please read the following. This is the letter you have been hearing about on the news lately. Due to the popularity of this letter on the Internet, a national weekly news program recently devoted an entire show to the investigation of this program described below, to see if it really can make people money. The show also investigated whether or not the program was legal. Their findings proved once and for all that there are ''absolutely NO Laws prohibiting the participation in the program and if people can -follow the simple instructions, they are bound to make some mega bucks with only $25 out of pocket cost''. DUE TO THE RECENT INCREASE OF POPULARITY & RESPECT THIS PROGRAM HAS ATTAINED, IT IS CURRENTLY WORKING BETTER THAN EVER. This is what one had to say: ''Thanks to this profitable opportunity. I was approached many times before but each time I passed on it. I am so gladI finally joined just to see what one could expect in return for the minimal effort and money required. To my astonishment, I received total $ 610,470.00 in 21 weeks, with money still coming in." Pam Hedland, Fort Lee, New Jersey. =================================================== Here is another testimonial: "This program has been around for a long time but I never believed in it. But one day when I received this again in the mail I decided to gamble my $25 on it. I followed the simple instructions and walaa ..... 3 weeks later the money started to come in. First month I only made $240.00 but the next 2 months after that I made a total of $290,000.00. So far, in the past 8 months by re-entering the program, I have made over $710,000.00 and I am playing it again. The key to success in this program is to follow the simple steps and NOT change anything.'' More testimonials later but first,===== PRINT THIS NOW FOR YOUR FUTUREREFERENCE ======$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ If you would like to make at least $500,000 every 4 to 5 months easily and comfortably, please read the following...THEN READ IT AGAIN and AGAIN!!! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$FOLLOW THE SIMPLE INSTRUCTION BELOW AND YOUR FINANCIAL DREAMS WILL COME TRUE, GUARANTEED! INSTRUCTIONS:=====Order all 5 reports shown on the list below ===== For each report, send $5 CASH, THE NAME & NUMBER OF THE REPORT YOU ARE ORDERING and YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS to the person whose name appears ON THAT LIST next to the report. MAKE SURE YOUR RETURN ADDRESS IS ON YOUR ENVELOPE TOP LEFT CORNER in case of any mail problems. === When you place your order, make sure you order each of the 5 reports. You will need all 5 reports so that you can save them on your computer and resell them. YOUR TOTAL COST $5 X 5=$25.00. Within a few days you will receive, vie e-mail, each of the 5 reports from these 5 different individuals. Save them on your computer so they will be accessible for you to send to the 1,000's of people who will order them from you. Also make a floppy of these reports and keep it on your desk in case something happen to your computer. IMPORTANT - DO NOT alter the names of the people who are listed next to each report, or their sequence on the list, in any way other than what is instructed below in step '' 1 through 6 '' or you will loose out on majority of your profits. Once you understand the way this works, you will also see how it does not work if you change it. Remember, this method has been tested, and if you alter, it will NOT work !!! People have tried to put their friends/relatives names on all five thinking they could get all the money. But it does not work this way. Believe us, we all have tried to be greedy and then nothing happened. So Do Not try to change anything other than what is instructed. Because if you do, it will not work for you. Remember, honesty reaps the reward!!! 1.... After you have ordered all 5 reports, take this advertisement and REMOVE the name & address of the person in REPORT # 5. This person has made it through the cycle and is no doubt counting their fortune. 2.... Move the name & address in REPORT # 4 down TO REPORT # 5. 3.... Move the name & address in REPORT # 3 down TO REPORT # 4. 4.... Move the name & address in REPORT # 2 down TO REPORT # 3. 5.... Move the name & address in REPORT # 1 down TO REPORT # 2 6.... Insert YOUR name & address in the REPORT # 1 Position. PLEASE MAKE SURE you copy every name & address ACCURATELY! ========================================================== **** Take this entire letter, with the modified list of names, and save it on your computer. DO NOT MAKE ANY OTHER CHANGES. Save this on a disk as well just in case if you loose any data. To assist you with marketing your business on the internet, the 5 reports you purchase will provide you with invaluable marketing information which includes how to send bulk e-mails legally, where to find thousands of free classified ads and much more. There are 2 Primary methods to get this venture going: METHOD # 1: BY SENDING BULK E-MAIL LEGALLY ========================================================== Let's say that you decide to start small, just to see how it goes, and we will assume You and those involved send out only 5,000 e-mails each. Let's also assume that the mailing receive only a 0.2% response (the response could be much better but lets just say it is only 0.2%. Also many people will send out hundreds of thousands e-mails instead of only 5,000 each). Continuing with this example, you send out only 5,000 e-mails. With a 0.2% response, that is only 10 orders for report # 1. Those 10 people responded by sending out 5,000 e-mail each for a total of 50,000. Out of those 50,000 e-mails only 0.2% responded with orders. That's=100 people responded and ordered Report # 2. Those 100 people mail out 5,000 e-mails each for a total of 500,000 e-mails. The 0.2% response to that is 1000 orders for Report # 3. Those 1000 people send out 5,000 e-mails each for a total of 5 million e-mails sent out. The 0.2% response to that is 10,000 orders for Report # 4. Those 10,000 people send out 5,000 e-mails each for a total of 50,000,000 (50 million) e-mails. The 0.2% response to that is 100,000 orders for Report # 5 THAT'S 100,000 ORDERS TIMES $5 EACH=$500,000.00 (half million). Your total income in this example is: $50 + $500 + $5,000 + $50,000 + $500,000 ........ Grand Total=$555,550.00 NUMBERS DO NOT LIE. GET A PENCIL & PAPER AND FIGUREOUT THE WORST POSSIBLE RESPONSES AND NO MATTER HOW YOU CALCULATE IT, YOU WILL STILL MAKE A LOT OF MONEY ! ========================================================= REMEMBER FRIEND, THIS IS ASSUMING ONLY 10 PEOPLE ORDERING OUT OF 5,000 YOU MAILED TO. Dare to think for a moment what would happen if everyone or half or even one 4th of those people mailed 100,000e-mails each or more? There are over 150 million people on the Internet worldwide and counting. Believe me, many people will do just that, and more!METHOD # 2 : BY PLACING FREE ADS ON THE INTERNET ======================================================= Advertising on the net is very very inexpensive and there are hundreds of FREE places to advertise. Placing a lot of free ads on the Internet will easily get a larger response. We strongly suggest you start with Method # 1 and dd METHOD # 2 as you go along. For every $5 you receive, all you must do is e-mail them the Report they ordered. That's it. Always provide same day service on all orders. This will guarantee that the e-mail they send out, with your name and address on it, will be prompt because they can not advertise until they receivethe report. =========== AVAILABLE REPORTS ==================== ORDER EACH REPORT BY ITS NUMBER & NAME ONLY. Notes: Always send $5 cash (U.S. CURRENCY) for each Report. Checks NOT accepted. Make sure the cash is concealed by wrapping it in at least 2 sheets of paper. On one of those sheets of paper, Write the NUMBER & the NAME of the Report you are ordering, YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS and your name and postal address. PLACE YOUR ORDER FOR THESE REPORTS NOW : ==================================================== REPORT # 1: "The Insider's Guide to Advertising for Free on the Net" Order Report #1 from:Tracy Weeks28 Sunshinr RoadUpper Darby, Pa 19082___________________________________________________________ REPORT # 2: "The Insider's Guide to Sending Bulk e-mail on the Net" Order Report # 2 from: Tom Cameron402 Raymond Rd.Waunakee, WI 53597USA________________________________________________________ REPORT # 3: "Secret to Multilevel Marketing on the Net" Order Report # 3 from : Jacque Hart17515 Iceland Ct.Lakeville, MN 55044____________________________________________________________ REPORT # 4: "How to Become a Millionaire Utilizing MLM & the Net" Order Report # 4 from: C. J. KalataP.O. Box 130157Roseville, MN 55113-0002USA___________________________________________________________ REPORT #5: "How to Send Out 0ne Million e-mails for Free" Order Report # 5 from: R. B.Box 21115Grande PrairieAlberta, T8V-6W7Canada ____________________________________________________________ $$$$$$$$$ YOUR SUCCESS GUIDELINES $$$$$$$$$$$ Follow these guidelines to guarantee your success: === If you do not receive at least 10 orders for Report #1 within 2 weeks, continue sending e-mails until you do. === After you have received 10 orders, 2 to 3 weeks after that you should receive 100 orders or more for REPORT # 2. If you did not, continue advertising or sending e-mails until you do. === Once you have received 100 or more orders for Report # 2, YOU CAN RELAX, because the system is already working for you, and the cash will continue to roll in ! THIS IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER: Every time your name is moved down on the list, you are placed in front of a Different report. You can KEEP TRACK of your PROGRESS by watching which report people are ordering from you. IF YOU WANT TO GENERATE MORE INCOME SEND ANOTHER BATCH OF E-MAILS AND START THE WHOLE PROCESS AGAIN. There is NO LIMIT to the income you can generate from this business !!! ====================================================== FOLLOWING IS A NOTE FROM THE ORIGINATOR OF THIS PROGRAM: You have just received information that can give you financial freedom for the rest of your life, with NO RISK and JUST A LITTLE BIT OF EFFORT. You can make more money in the next few weeks and months than you have ever imagined. Follow the program EXACTLY AS INSTRUCTED. Do Not change it in any way. It works exceedingly well as it is now. Remember to e-mail a copy of this exciting report after you have put your name and address in Report #1 and moved others to #2 ...........# 5 as instructed above. One of the people you send this to may send out 100,000 or more e-mails and your name will be on every one of them. Remember though, the more you send out the more potential customers you will reach. So my friend, I have given you the ideas, information, materials and opportunity to become financially independent. IT IS UP TO YOU NOW !============ MORE TESTIMONIALS ================ "My name is Mitchell. My wife, Jody and I live in Chicago. I am an accountant with a major U.S. Corporation and I make pretty good money. When I received this program I grumbled to Jody about receiving ''junk mail''. I made fun of the whole thing,spouting my knowledge of the population and percentages involved. I ''knew'' it wouldn't work. Jody totally ignored my supposed intelligence and few days later she jumped in with both feet. I made merciless fun of her, and was ready to lay the old ''I told you so'' on her when the thing didn't work. Well, the laugh was on me! Within 3 weeks she had received 50 responses. Within the next 45 days she had received total $ 147,200.00 ........... all cash! I was shocked. I have joined Jody in her ''hobby''. Mitchell Wolf M.D., Chicago, Illinois ====================================================== ''Not being the gambling type, it took me several weeks to make up my mind to participate in this plan. But conservative that I am, I decided that the initial investment was so little that there was just no way that I wouldn't get enough orders to at least get my money back''. '' I was surprised when I found my medium size post office box crammed with orders. I made $319,210.00in the first 12 weeks. The nice thing about this deal is that it does not matter where people live. There simply isn't a better investment with a faster return and so big." Dan Sondstrom, Alberta, Canada ======================================================= ''I had received this program before. I deleted it, but later I wondered if I should have given it a try. Of course, I had no idea who to contact to get another copy, so I had to wait until I was e-mailed again by someone else.........11 months passed then it luckily came again...... I did not delete this one! I made more than $490,000 on my first try and all the money came within 22 weeks." Susan De Suza, New York, N.Y. ======================================================= ''It really is a great opportunity to make relatively easy money with little cost to you. I followed the simple instructions carefully and within 10 days the money started to come in. My first month I made $20,560.00 and by the end of third month my total cash count was $362,840.00. Life is beautiful, Thanx to internet.". Fred Dellaca, Westport, New Zealand ======================================================= ORDER YOUR REPORTS TODAY AND GET STARTED ON 'YOUR' ROAD TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM ! ======================================================= If you have any questions of the legality of this program, contact the Office of Associate Director for Marketing Practices, Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Washington, D.C.

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apostrophes
by Fred Blumenthal 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

Note that on the subject line the word "apostrophes" is spelled without an apostrophe. If the subject were something belonging to an apostrophe, or if it were a contraction of "apostrophe is," then it would be "apostrophe's." But the subject is the plural of "apostrophe." This rule may be applied to all uses of apostrophes. "Fred's" would be "Fred is" or something belonging to me; but more than one person named Fred is "Freds." The same with decades: when numbers are used to indicate a decade - as in "That 70s Crypto Show" - the use of an apostrophe is not called for, because it's a plural, not a contraction or a possessive. Of course, I don't know how your role as self-described punks interfaces with that rule, but a lot of people misuse apostrophes, and I'm afraid that if we misuse them we'll lose them. Fred Blumenthal Sales Productivity Center - St. Louis, MO Text/Graphics xd2fabl(a)us.ibm.com 314/469-4344 or T/L 666-4344 **INCREASE YOUR FACE-TIME! CALL THE SALES PRODUCTIVITY CENTER AT 1-877-707-2727!**

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The perfect solution 6056
by lenny8＠qatarmail.com 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

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Re: Spam coding help request
by Declan McCullagh 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

rereading the bill, i realized that perhaps this (below) would do it... --Declan #!/usr/bin/perl open (MAIL,"| /usr/lib/sendmail -t -oi"); print MAIL <<END; To: fight-censorship\(a)vorlon.mit.edu From: spammer\(a)spammer.com Subject: MAKE MONEY FAST! $1000 a Week, a FREE Car, and FREE Leads!!! Rule #1 PUT YOUR FRIENDS ON HOLD... do not sell to people you know until you are making money... I will give you more FREE leads than you can CALL... I am spending $10,000 weekly to help you build your team... END close MAIL; print "perlscript: done\n";

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Spam coding help request
by Declan McCullagh 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

Assume the below bill becomes law. Would anyone care to write a program that violates this law and send it to me in the next 10 hours? I would be glad to give you full credit in my weekly column, which is why I'm writing this. Heck, maybe a procmail-formail combination would do it. This might be the easiest to code for: ''(i) is designed or produced primarily for the purpose of concealing the source or routing information of bulk unsolicited electronic mail messages in a manner prohibited by subparagraph (D) of this paragraph; -Declan SEC. 2. PROTECTION FROM FRAUDULENT UNSOLICITED E-MAIL. Section 1030 of title 18, United States Code, is amended (1) in subsection (a)(5) (A) by striking ''or'' at the end of subparagraph (B); and (B) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following: ''(D) intentionally and without authorization initiates the transmission of a bulk unsolicited electronic mail message to a protected computer with knowledge that such message falsifies an Internet domain, header information, date or time stamp, originating e-mail address, or other identifier; or ''(E) intentionally sells or distributes any computer program that ''(i) is designed or produced primarily for the purpose of concealing the source or routing information of bulk unsolicited electronic mail messages in a manner prohibited by subparagraph (D) of this paragraph; ''(ii) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to conceal such source or routing information; or ''(iii) is marketed by the violator or an- other person acting in concert with the violator and with the violator's knowledge for use in concealing the source or routing information of such messages'';

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Choatian agriculture
by Blank Frank 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

At 09:43 PM 3/21/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: >On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Aimee Farr wrote: >> You gnaw at a branch and call it a root. > >Opposite ends of the same thing. You can't have one without the other so >in a very real way to eat a potato Only JC would introduce a tuber into a discussion of roots and branches. Simply amazing.

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PGP flaw found by Czech firm allows dig sig to be forged
by Declan McCullagh 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42553,00.html Your E-Hancock Can Be Forged by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)wired.com) 10:20 a.m. Mar. 21, 2001 PST WASHINGTON -- A Czech information security firm has found a flaw in Pretty Good Privacy that permits digital signatures to be forged in some situations. Phil Zimmermann, the PGP inventor who's now the director of the OpenPGP Consortium, said on Wednesday that he and a Network Associates (NETA) engineer verified that the vulnerability exists. ICZ, a Prague company with 450 employees, said that two of its cryptologists unearthed a bug in the OpenPGP format that allows an adversary who breaks into your computer to forge your e-mail signature. Both Zimmermann and the Czech engineers, Vlastimil Klima and Tomas Rosa, point out that the glitch does not affect messages encrypted with PGP. OpenPGP programs -- including GNU Privacy Guard and newer versions of PGP -- use different algorithms for signing and scrambling, and only the digital signature method is at risk. PGP and its offspring are by far the most popular e-mail encryption programs in the world. Nobody has disclosed a flaw in their message-scrambling mechanisms, but PGP owner Network Associates suffered an embarrassment last August when a German cryptanalyst published a way that allows an attacker to hoodwink PGP into not encoding secret information properly. In this case, someone wishing to impersonate you would need to gain access to your secret key -- usually stored on a hard drive or a floppy disk -- surreptitiously modify it, then obtain a message you signed using the altered secret key. Once those steps are complete, that person could then digitally sign messages using your name. "PGP or any program based on the OpenPGP format that does not have any extra integrity check will not recognize such modification and it will allow you to sign a message with the corrupted key," says Rosa, who works at Decros, an ICZ company. Rosa says he demonstrated the vulnerability with PGP 7.0.3. [...]

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RE: Potatos. [was: John Doe vs. John Doe...]
by Trei, Peter 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

> Jim Choate[SMTP:ravage@einstein.ssz.com] > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Trei, Peter wrote: > > > I fell awfully tempted NOT to inform Jim that potato leaves are > poisonous > > :-) > > Clearly not personal experience talking. > Of course not! I try to learn from *other* peoples mistakes. http://www.life.umd.edu/classroom/BSCI124/lec30.html LECTURE 30 - POISONOUS AND ALLERGENIC PLANTS [...] 2. Saponins (e.g. tomatine in tomato, solanine in potato) a. Natural soaps (as in century plants (Agave))- develop bubbles but poke holes in membranes (by aggregating cholesterol) b. Causes nausea, vomiting, diarrhea c. Solanine present in potato (Solanum tuberosum) - most of plant except tubers is poisonous. Tuber contains solanine too, but toxic dose is about 100 potatoes. Green potatoes (which turn green after exposure to sunlight) can cause fatal poisonings. Green and damaged potatoes are even more toxic. [...]

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Re: John Doe vs. John Doe: Virginia Court's Decision in Onlin e John Doe' Case Hailed by Free-Speech Advocates
by Trei, Peter 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

> Jim Choate[SMTP:ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com] wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Aimee Farr wrote: > > > You gnaw at a branch and call it a root. > > Opposite ends of the same thing. You can't have one without the other so > in a very real way to eat a potato is to chew on a potato branch (in a > figurative way of course). > I fell awfully tempted NOT to inform Jim that potato leaves are poisonous :-) [...] Peter Trei

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RE: Hints...
by Sandy Sandfort 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Jim wrote: > Reply publicly to the list or we're done with this discussion. (Take a chill pill Jim.) Sorry all, I guess I pushed the wrong button. I sent the following to Jim alone by mistake: Jim wrote: > Q: When did Congress pass a law specifically > making the 'common law' in the 7th > Amendment equivalent to English Common Law? A: No need, it always was. The pre-existing common law in this country was not extinguished by independence. > Once again, why does "...shall make no > law..." not equate to (common law?) > 'Stop' signs? Once again, the admonition is directed at congress. The common law does not arise out of legislation and, thus, is not affected by the admonition. Quod Erat demonstrandum.

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