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Spam Haters Given Right of Reply

Posted by Zonk on from the hitting-back dept.

rk_cr wrote to mention an Israeli technology firm which has set up a system to allow harried email users the right to reply in force. The system "batters spam websites with thousands of complaints. The plan is to fill order forms on spam websites offering pills, porn and penile health tonics with complaints about the products advertised for sale in junk messages. The plan has been criticised by other anti-spam workers who say it amounts to vigilantism."

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  1. fight fire with fire? by Prophetic_Truth · · Score: 4, Funny

    so we spam the spammers sending spam...wait..what? This is some strange paradox that i can't understand at 7am EST..

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    time is a perception of a being's consciousness
    time is your 6th sense, the wierd ones are 7+
  2. Futurama by zaxios · · Score: 4, Funny

    Leela: Hold it Santa! Consider this: you are programmed to destroy the naughty... I submit to you, that you are in fact naughty, and that, logically, you must destroy yourself.

    Santa: Nice try, but my head was built with paradox absorbing crumple zones.

  3. "spam solutions checklist in..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    5.. 4...3...2..1...

    (you know, the "your solution to spam is unworkable because..." one)

  4. You insensitive clod!!! by rock_climbing_guy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a spammer and I really don't appreciate this kind of vigilantism. Therefore, I'm going to have my army of spambots crapflood your website with GNAA/Trollkore posts. Have a nice day.

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    Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
  5. Re:Not just getting the spammers though by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas. ...dude, if you're having sex with animals, fleas are the least of your worries.

  6. It doesn't go far enough! by Aldric · · Score: 2, Funny

    All this does is put them out of business. I want to kick them in the nuts too.