The History of the Massacre

Fighting the good fight since 1997.

2025

The Modern Rebirth

snARASM is rebuilt from the ground up using Java 17, Spring Boot, and modern web technologies. The core logic is refined to handle modern obfuscation techniques used by spammers.
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2002 - 2025

The Quiet Years

While the tool remained internal, the spam kept coming. Jim forwarded all his personal email to gmail which was pretty effective at culling spam.
Unfortunately, gmail would often put useful email into the spam folder so it still had to be monitored.

1998 - 2001

The Inception and Active years

Fed up with all the spam, SIMS NET Inc launches the first iteration. "Alice's Restaurant Anti-Spam Massacre" is born out of necessity and a love for folk music references.
You can view the statistics page from 2001 (and other background/fun stuff) here.

1993

Pre history

Jim starts SIMS NET - the 93rd Internet Provider on the planet from his living room just outside Charleston, SC.
SIMS.NET signs up hundreds of dialup customers for flat-rate monthly Internet access at a time when most providers charge hourly rates.
SIMS.NET registers and hosts dozens of web sites - with one miscalculation - Jim exposes his personal email address and the admin and tech contact for each domain
So, he starts getting tons of spam from spammers harvesting email addresses from the domain registry.