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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Mobius Fax by GoRK · 2003-07-24 04:10 · Score: 0, Troll

I wonder if he sent them a Mobius Fax also? According to legend (and probably a true thing) some old thermal fax machines would catch on fire after a while if the mobius fax was not discovered and interrupted (and your construction paper didn't slip) - basically what you did was to feed a long strip of black paper into your machine and when it came out the back, loop it over and tape it together so that your machine faxed an endless stream of black. Funny stuff (until the arson charge anyway)

~GoRK