OT/advice: spam (wasRe: Klingon speaker needed in Portland, Oregon)

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).

    I said "once-labour-intensive", right? Well, after doing the above
trickster actions for like 2-3 months, it seems I am _persona non gratis_ to most
spammers. I even got some rather nasty email replies about how I am "not the
least bit funny" or "Very funny, wise-ass" or that I am an "immature pain in the
ass" or that I need to "get a life" (LMAO).
    After my semi-automated deluge of mutilated emails, one porno-spammer
wrote me to inform me that the porno-(web)ring he/she belongs to has put my email
address at the very top of their "Top Not Wanted List" which is also known as
their "hate-list" (as to opposed to their "bait-list").
     ::mock-swoons:: I absolutely looooove this kind of fan mail ;)

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Hanuman Zhang, spamicidist

    "Excess is excrement. Excrement retained in the body is poison." - Ursula
Le Guin

    "A man's character is determined by how hard he will fight for what he
believes in." - Aben Kandel

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