----- Original Message -----
From: "J Y S Czhang" <czhang23@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 5:50 PM
Subject: 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 ;)
>
I'll have to remember that. Spam spammers...