Python spam?

[Frederic Rentsch]

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> "Aahz" <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Anyone else getting "Python-related" spam?  So far, I've seen messages
>> "from" Barry Warsaw and Skip Montanaro (although of course header
>> analysis proves they didn't send it).
>> --
>>     
>
> not like that - just the normal crud from people giving me get rich quick tips
> on the stock market that is aimed at mobilising my money to follow theirs to
> help influence the price of a share...
>
> - Hendrik
>
>
>   
...which I noticed works amazingly well in many cases, looking at the 
charts. which, again, means that the trick isn't likely to fizzle out 
soon as others have with victims getting wise to it. Getting feathers 
plucked in this game isn't a turn-off. It's an opportunity to join the 
pluckers by speeding up one's turnover at the expense of the slowpokes. 
Like pyramid sales this it is a self-generating market.
   This game, at least, isn't unethical, other than clogging the 
internet with reckless traffic. I've been asking myself why it seems so 
difficult to backtrace such obtrusive, if not criminal, traffic to the 
source and squash it there. Perhaps some knowledgeable volunteer would 
share his insights. Perhaps stalking con artists could be another 
interest group.

Frederic