My next step was to write SpammerSlammer. This program allows people to generate real looking but fake order information that was written to pass order validation forms on Spamvertised sites. This effort took about 2 days research, debug and write. I am lucky to see this accessed twice a week.

About a year or so after after Lycos shut down “Make Love Not Spam,” a multi million dollar Israeli company published Blue Frog. This program was was used by thousands and was very successful. It, like “Make Love not Spam,” finally took the battle to the spammers. It worked like a charm until spammers figured out that all they had to do was attack the server responsible for updating the anti spam clients. I joined the Blue Security developers group and was eager to contribute code. Unfortunately Blue Security pulled out and shut down before I could really get involved.

I decided the Blue Security and “Make Love not Spam,” were excellent programs with only one fatal flaw that I thought I would correct. That flaw was the fact that these programs required a central server to operate and update. This is where I really decided to jump in and start writing. I wrote a program that did basically the same thing as “Make Love not Spam,” but which operated on a peer to peer format. After several months of hard work, I finally released an alpha earlier this year (open source and at no cost). In addition, I spent hundreds of dollars in my own money to promote the program. For all of my efforts, what did I get? Two lousy downloads.

People like Jon (who runs this site for those who don’t know), me, and many others who work hard to solve problems cannot even get others who claim they care about a problem to even lift one damned finger to help out. I donated money to keep this site running, and Jon has given me space to let people know about SpammerSkewer, but very few people care to join the effort.

My conclusion is this, people love to bitch and moan about how they hate spam, high gas prices, big companies steamrollering people, and working more and more for less and less. Unfortunately, except for the very few, they refuse to band together to take care of a problem unless they receive instructions. From some multi million (or Billion) dollar company.

Most people DESERVE the corrupt governments, outrageous prices they pay for things, and whatever other problems they are faced with. This is because they refuse to get off their asses to even contribute a little bit towards fixing things. Instead, most prefer to have their nose rings pulled in the direction of the day by whatever government or corporate entities that currently control these rings.