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Well, the e-mail spammers.
I kind of like some of the forum spammers :whistle:

Well I did something different...
There's a mail (I can send it to you) that thanks everyone for ruenind your life, because you can't sleep - feeling guilty for the little girl sufficating for the 1.455.643.346th time in a hospital somewhere... and so on...

Another time I started a chainmail against the guy sending it:
Please sign this petition to stop XY sending these mails, because he's consuming so much electricity 789.903 trees died because of polution and 523 people died, because he took the power supply neede for their life support system.
Then added many random names as signitures!

I like to have my fun with people (other methods were worse, so I won't tell them).

I neither sign nor reply. I ignore, and send to my junkmail filter.

If someone has something important to say, then I guess it's just too bad if I miss it, if they were inconsiderate enough to send me silly forwards in the first place. :whistle: :D

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Originally posted by taikara@Jun 16 2005, 06:15 PM
I neither sign nor reply. I ignore, and send to my junkmail filter.

I do the same... ignoring it's the only way!

I tried in the past to convince all my friends (expecially the girls that seem to appreciate too much these chain mails...) to ignore the spam... but with really poor result... :tomato:

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Originally posted by Indignus IV@Jun 16 2005, 01:24 PM
Call me sick and perverted, but, being a scientist, I would like to see those kitties (if they exist). However, I would NEVER do that to a real cat. Nobody get me wrong. It just sounds like an interesting process, even though I know it is very sick.

About the spam emails: I say just sign it, for goodness sake. You could even put on a fake name.

I'd do that to someone who actually intended to do to a cat.

Signing wouldn't solve much. There'll always be more and more chain petitions, and people have no idea if you already signed so they'll keep sending them.

2 months ago, I had to ignore a friend's email and have a serious chat with her about this because she kept sending me perfectly normal emails of jokes, images, whatever.. But in the end there was always something like: "If you do not send this to 15 people, you'll have bad luck for the next 3 years. Send to 20 people and you have your biggest wish coming true in the next 2 days, 25 people... (etc etc)".

Needless to say, I NEVER forward any chain message, not even those mentioned above.

I don't intend to do that to a cat at all. I'm just a bit interested as to how they keep the cat alive in that jar.

Peace, Man!

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Originally posted by Quintopotere@Jun 16 2005, 06:36 PM
I tried in the past to convince all my friends (expecially the girls that seem to appreciate too much these chain mails...) to ignore the spam... but with really poor result... :tomato:

My dad and my aunt are particularly fond of them.... :D

Into the junkmail box they go, along with the rest of the spammers :angel:

I tend to ignore them, although it's catchy what sebatianos did :D

do what i do, not use or have a e mail account :evil: its pure genius

Genius you call it... electronically handicapped I would call it, my young padawan.
[Sings a bit off-key] To be without my email, would be impossible to do... cause in this world of wi-hi-de web, my email gets me through[/singing]

But seriously... gmail has built-in spam filter and for Outlook I'd recommend SpamBayes which uses a nice self-learing Bayesian net to filter you spam...