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Spam Haters Given Right of Reply

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. Re:I signed up by cinnamon+colbert · · Score: 0, Redundant

    well, i have this wierd thing, u go to a web site and sign up for a service and get software, the website shd explain what the software does...I guess I am old fashioned in actually expecting
    but i guess for a snotty geek like yourself, expecting a web site to actually work is way to simplistic, sort of like all those morons who think excel is not a goood way to do data storage