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Russian Minister Gets Spammed, Spams Back

elhim writes "According to an article in the Moscow Times: 'Spammers last week got on the wrong side of the wrong man, and quickly found themselves with a taste of their own medicine. The man? Deputy Communications Minister Andrei Korotkov. Tired of the endless spate of unsolicited messages that clog e-mail systems everywhere, [Korotkov and others devised] ...an audio message to be volleyed nonstop to the telephone numbers listed in the... [email] spam messages.' Sometimes Russia reminds me of the Wild West."

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  1. In Soviet Russia by Rogerborg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just shut the fuck up, already. It wasn't funny six months ago, it's not funny now.

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