Re: OT/advice: spam (wasRe: Klingon speaker needed in Portland, Oregon)
From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
Date: | Thursday, May 22, 2003, 9:31 |
J Y S Czhang wrote:
>In a message dated 2003:05:20 03:14:01 PM, sally caves writes:
>
>
>>You really have to check your email every day, maybe even twice, to keep
>>it from piling up. AND HALF OF IT IS SPAM!
>>
>>
> I have greatly reduced my spam-to-real-email ratio (something like 1 spam
>to every 40-50 real emails) by a rather funny-but-once-labour-intensive
>method: I forward "mutated/cut-up" spam from Spammer A to Spammer B, spam from B to
>C, C to D, etc.. (Also, I abuse Babelfish to translate their spam into
>obscure languages and "collage" them with the originals).
>
>
Sounds like a funky idea ... but how do you get the spammers email
address? (Not that I get much spam to this email address...)
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Tristan <kesuari@...>