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December 18, 2003 | Comments: (0)
Spamming the spammers
The anti-spam bill not withstanding, we all know it probably won't put a dent in the number of worthless emails you receive. And this trash will also soon be showing up on your wireless devices as well.
So what to do?
Well, here's what we did in the olden days when we used to receive fax spams. We would respond to the spam by taping one end of the page to the other end as it passed the scanner thus putting the response into a never ending loop tying up the spammers fax machine for as long as you wanted to keep doing it.
Yes, I realize our office fax was also tied up but the sheer joy of fighting back made it all worthwhile.
So, my question to our smart readers out there, is there the moral equivalent of the fax loop that can be perpetrated on the current crop of spammers?
Posted by Ephraim Schwartz on December 18, 2003 01:21 PM
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