Hey,

I just recieved this email, what does this mean? Is this a joke, or for real? Can someone explain?


Subject: Bulletproof Web Hosting Available

Message:
BULK FRIENDLY offshore website hosting only $500 per month.
Bulk Email advertise your website, RISK FREE!
Never have your website shutdown again.
More hits and business than you can imagine.
Other bulk friendly hosts charge thousands for this type of hosting.

50mb space
MYSQL
SSL
CGI
PHP
PERL
FTP Access
Unlimited Band Width
Front Page Extensions

NO PORN or CASINO! NO PORN or CASINO!

Also: Bulk Friendly POP3 mailboxes $250 per month.
Never lose your mailbox again. (hard to find)

Resellers welcome.

FOR MORE INFO: Reply with "99" in SUBJECT field.

TO BE REMOVED: Reply with "Remove" in the SUBJECT field.

hrmm think they will have customers? I think they are aiming for businesses. But most businesses use

ASP
JSP
CFM

Which they don't have.
:)

-Andy

This is code for "Spammers come here and spam all you want without getting shut down."

I got that same email...

It appears that they are offering Hosting for Spammers services :mad:

Hi,
For those of you whom have not been on the net for the last ten plus years...

Your close... it is hosting for spammers. But it does not mean your site won't go down. Spam servers are killed every day.

They just move the server to a different location and turn it on again. They expect to go down, and then come back up in a few days. It is a really stupid way to go through life, but there are tons of newbies that fall for the bulk email jargan, and go through that mess until they either give up, or get smart, and stop spamming.

Tim L :cool:

Originally posted by superiorhost
Your close... it is hosting for spammers. But it does not mean your site won't go down. Spam servers are killed every day.


Spam servers are killed every day, but unfortunately not by everyone. Some ISPs have an unfortunate tendency to sign contracts allowing their customers to evade the spam-banning AUPs which other customers fall under.

With so many network providers on the edge of financial ruin I am sure that there is a great deal of pressure on some people to unofficially allow spamming.

Well, you have a good point... I am sure there are a good number of places that "if the price is right" you can do what you want...
Unfortunate,,, but we know it has to be happening.

Tim L