Russian Minister Gets Spammed, Spams Back

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday July 23, 2003 @09:19PM from the in-soviet-russia-you-insert-punchline dept.

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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Re:In Soviet Russia by torpor · 2003-07-23 23:53 · Score: 0, Redundant

In Soviet Russia ... joke get sick of you!

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Re:In Soviet Russia by HardCase · 2003-07-24 03:08 · Score: 0, Redundant

In Soviet Russia, the joke shuts you up!

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Re:This is a Public Service Announcement by Associate · 2003-07-24 10:04 · Score: 0, Redundant

1. Beat a dead horse.
2. ???
3. Profit!

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