Re: what is "gsm ping"?

On 4/30/07, Arne Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Am Dienstag 24 April 2007 18:11:08 schrieb Pollywog:
> > I have been getting many spams in the Cyrillic alphabet or in English
> > with .ru URL's and the first characters in the spams are "GSM ping" I
> > had not seen such spams until a week or so ago, are they being sent
> > from cell phones? The spams are disguised as AUTH requests, otherwise
> > I would never even see them.
>
> Hm, I never saw those. But I regularly get seemingly senseless spam
> emails. So
> why should they stop with ICQ? :)



I have some defense against email spams, but these ICQ spams are something
else.  The only solution is Jabber, if only people would use it.