Time-travel Spammer Strikes Back

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Time-travel Spammer Strikes Back

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday November 1, 2003 @09:48PM from the attacks-from-the-future dept.

HopToit writes "Robby Todino is apparently upset about being outed a couple months ago as the source of all those wacked messages about 'Dimenstional Warp Generator Needed.' According to Wired, someone has pulled a major joe-job spam attack (forged 'From:' lines) on three popular sites in retaliation for making fun of Todino's goofy search for alien technology. Robby, if you're out there, you have ceased to be amusing."

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Sore Loser? by General+Sherman · 2003-11-01 21:49 · Score: 2, Funny

Like all good bond adversaries, this one won't die.

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Wow... by Jin+Wicked · 2003-11-01 21:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Someone needs to get that guy on Coast to Coast AM, with Art Bell/George Noory stat.

Knowing that show, there's someone else in the audience that actually does have all that equipment he's searching for. =)

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Time travel by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-01 21:56 · Score: 5, Funny

The very fact that we received spam proves that time travel is impossible: If it was possible, someone would invent it, travel back in time and beat up all the spammers so that they would never have sent any in the first place.
Time Cops by t0ny · 2003-11-01 22:00 · Score: 5, Funny

we need to send Van Damme after this guy.

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Easy Solution by FannyMinstrel · 2003-11-01 22:02 · Score: 2, Funny

Why doesn't he travel back in time and kill all of their grandfathers? They would cease to exist.
Wait. Then he wouldn't need to kill their grandfathers. And then he would.
And...
And...
Excuse me.
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I can fly!
This says it all? by isfuglen · 2003-11-01 22:05 · Score: 2, Funny

Todino's father, Robert Todino Sr., previously told Wired News that his son has psychological problems and earnestly believes in the possibility of time travel.

Are spammers going to start pleading "insanity" when they get arrested? "The aliens made me do it!"

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Re:Let's review.. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-02 00:05 · Score: 5, Funny

Would you like mail from president@whitehouse.gov, or maybe brittany@spears.com?
No, but I'd be happy if you'd forge mail from one to the other. It might keep them both occupied long enough for the country to emerge from the half-flushed toilet bowl we're sitting in right now...
Re:Where to really look... by GMontag · 2003-11-02 01:38 · Score: 5, Funny

a hundred million years or so and will continue only for a few hundred million more - quite a small window in the history

Statements like this are why I never lend money to anybody in Astronomy or Geology.

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Where's YOUR control? by StarKruzr · 2003-11-02 02:49 · Score: 2, Funny

I dunno about yours, but my TV has a power switch. Besides, who needs TV when you've got BitTorrent? :)

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Re:Someone help me... by Aspasia13 · 2003-11-02 05:03 · Score: 2, Funny

There is only one logical solution to this puzzle...

Get a lawyer and sue both these time travelers for patent infringement. With all the money, you won't have to worry about which crappy future you end up with.