Efficient way to spam

Anon

Hi!
Is there anyone out there that can tell or refer me to how to efficiently spam a group that is of a very large size, say about 100,000 users? The database that I'm using is mySQL.

What I'm doing at the moment is to just retrieve users from the database and spam. Wondering how to do this more efficiently.

Thanks!

Anon

Please do not attempt to gain support for spamming from this forum. Neither I, or any other user of the board I am sure, is interested in helping yet another spammer fill inboxes with garbage. If you are in need of assistance of anything useful, please feel free to ask. Otherwise, please don't.

Chris King

Anon

hear hear

Anon

It is best to retrieve your entire result set into an array before spamming, but then make sure to update your database after each spam:

using phplib
$db -> query("select * from users")
while ($db->row($db)) {
$user[] = $db->Record;
$user[$db->Record] = $db++; ## Go to the next row
}

//then spam
for ($i, sizeof($user) > $I, $I++) {
$db -> query ("update user set email = $User["E-mail"]");
mail()
}

Works very well. I've used it myself many times.

Anon

rot in hell

Anon

Dear Chris,
I don't know what I mentioned from my post that let you have the idea that I'm trying to do anything of that sort. If you really need to know. I'm working on a project that has a database of users which subscribes to a newsletter and therefore will be spammed whenever there is news. That's all.

Anon

"how to efficiently spam a group that is of a very large size, say about 100,000 users"

I'm guessing that's what Chris reacted to. It's certainly what I reacted to.

If you are genuinely talking about sending messages to a large group of people who have explicitly asked for them, and who can opt-out at any time, then you are talking about a mailing list. There are plenty of resources about to give you some ideas on how to do this.

Spamming is a completely different matter. It's force-feeding messages to people who would not otherwise have requested them.

Discussion groups like this one can be very helpful. People give their time and advice for free. It's hardly surprising that some of us react negatively when someone asks for help to do something as netnasty as spamming.

If you'd like some help on what spam is and isn't, and why it annoys so many of us, take a look at http://spam.abuse.net

Regards

Jack

Anon

How about using the word "spam" in the first place? If you're
talking about sending mail only to people who have explicitly
asked to receive it, be definition it's NOT spam.

Anon

Yeah,

SPAM is a square-sausage meat product that we have in England.
And then one day, Monty-Python sung a satirical song about how "nobody wants spam".
And that's why unwanted mail is called spam....

referring to a mailing list that people volunteed for contradicts the term spam.

Anon

Yes, give us your email address and you will be shown how a very good spam is done...