Update: Please note that this was originally written for Spam Karma v.1 and therefore some elements (licensing especially) no longer apply to SK2. Same spirit overall though.
OK, so before I go any further, let me make things as clear as I can:
Spam Karma is and will always be absolutely free. Free as in beer, free as in love.
So free, actually, that you could practically take it, change twenty lines and start selling it as yours. Except your own karma would probably shrivel as a result.
Anyway, the gist of it is that you are under no obligation, legal or moral, to pay anything for its use. In fact, you are entirely welcome and encouraged to use it for free. Though a supportive e-mail or comment is always nice too.
Now that we got that part out of the way:
Lately I have been submerged by people inquiring on how they could repay me for all the great work I have done on Spam Karma and all that.
Ok, so maybe not exactly “submerged”, but I got two emails and one comment in this direction today, which is more people offering to get me things than during the whole three months of my stint in a Tokyo strip club.
Not one to disappoint, and because bandwidth doesn’t come that cheap these days, I figured there should be no harm in helping all the people willing to part with a dollar or two, by providing this Paypal link:
An Amazon Wishlist probably would have been more adapted, but I really do not have the time to compile a list right now, plus we all now I’d sell these books for crack anyway.
Let me add that, while you can be sure that this money will be put to good use (buying a gallon-sized bottle of vodka or a replacement hip for my disabled grandma, whichever I can afford first), it won’t actually get you anything beside my eternal gratitude: neither the slightest guarantee that I’ll keep developing Spam Karma, nor any kind of preferential treatment with your bugs. Both development and support will be utterly unaffected by this and will keep depending solely on: 1) level of anger of my deserted entourage 2) time I can afford to devote to support without making it a fourth full-time day job.
I am not saying that if the donations reached insanely high proportions, I would not drop most other projects to concentrate solely on this one… But I’d more likely just blow the money on a plane ticket to the nearest beach paradise in the southern hemisphere never to be heard again.
Anyway, feel free to send your spare dollars, yens, pesos or traveller checks if you really really enjoyed using Spam Karma, but do not feel like you have to (and my grandma doesn’t need this hip prosthesis so badly anyway). I also accept first newborns, but I need a release form with them.
Oh, and don’t forget to go add your comments to Spam Karma 2.0 Call for Requests.
I expect a 400-word illustrated essay outlining how you spent the $5.00 I just sent you. 🙂
But seriously, great work on the plugin.
Let me see… Will a video do it? just gotta work out the editing and I’ll send that to you.
But seriously, thanks a lot for the gesture of appreciation 🙂
Hey there…
Call me a weirdo, but I’m in the process of writing a drum & base track titled “Texas H**dem must die” (or something like that, asterikses to avoid your filter), would it be ok for you if I dedicate the song to spam karma=? Hell, I think you as our hero should actually sing the lyrics! 😉
This is simply bloody awesome!
Please by all mean do, and it would be an honor to see Spam Karma in any way named in the making of such a grand project.
I love music too much to ever let my voice be recorded on a digital support, but I will gladly contribute to the work by doing the house remix and possibly incorporate it into some next mp3 mix (or play it live, who knows 😉
Go for it!
Definitely let me know when you are done so I can link to it…
Texas Holdwhater tries to comment about 2000 times a day on my blog – if I tried to pack all the anger these guys cause in a song, it will be at least 400 BPM… .-)
Do you think it would be ok from a moral point of view to beat the crap out of spammers? *eg*
More than ‘ok’, I would say that, from an eschatological point of view it would be perfectly acceptable to force-feed them buckets of canned spam until death ensues:
Indeed, we can safely assume from their conduct and actions that spammers possess neither mind, intelligence nor soul. As such, the compassion and respect to living beings that are exhibited by judeo-christian morals and make the foundation of most common western body of laws do not extend to them. Therefore, it is perfectly acceptable, morally and legally, to do away with them through violence. QED.
What makes me really angry is when I get spam about “tiny girls” and stuff among these lines – the usual spammers is just an idiot, I assume, but guys spamming for some paedophile bullshit should definitly be tortured to death or something – it’s disgusting. If they only were not using open proxies so we could start a DDOS attack on them or something…
I count myself lucky that you are active and that you care. Spamming blogs is sick. Thanks to your comment in my blog I was able to install the plug-in with no problem. Thanks a million!
Thanks again for a kickass product. Donation gladly given! I hear Bora Bora is nice this time of year…
Dr Dave, Spam Karma rocks. I love it. Thanks for making an awesome pluggin.
Just sent my little sign of appreciation via the PayPal shop for this wonderfull plugin. It has instantly stopped 100% of the spam I was receiving so far.
That’s much much better than what I was achieving with other similar programs.
Thanks a lot and keep on the good work!
I’m sending a directed donation – please do your best to add a feature to deliver a small, strategically placed electric shock to the spammer when you trap their messages for me. I understand there will probably be a few false-positives, which I can live with. And, if you could include a SK plugin hook for hacking the severity of the shock (add a disclaimer if you need to), I would gladly send ANOTHER $15 for that.
Excellent work!
Chris