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Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam....

Margin Walker

00:30 / 09.11.02

I wish I would've thought of this: stealing the bandwidth of spammers 1) just to be a spiteful prick or 2) to make a collage of random images as a sort of artsy fartsy time capsule of spam or 3) both. Here's what you do--firstly you open your email or waste time online. When you (invariably) find a .jpg or .gif in the e-mail (or pop-up ad), post it in this thread with a tag. A thread of disparate, thoroughly random images that steals bandwdth of those that would disrespect your privacy & your inbox. What's not to love?

Linus Dunce

13:59 / 10.11.02

I think this would be cool, but you'd be using up your own bandwidth too. And I'm sure some spam manager somewhere will be saying to their boss, "hey look, it's working! Stats are up! Let's do it some more!."

Linus Dunce

16:35 / 10.11.02

And don't you just know that "Father -- Ireland" is trying to sweep the porn off his machine so the kids don't find out what he's been up to. Or, perhaps, his parisioners ...

Baz Auckland

20:11 / 10.11.02

ohhhhhh. I just got it! I thought the ad was to help you find porn for yourself! I thought it was a joke...

deja_vroom

09:53 / 11.11.02

I just got one spam mail with the subject: MIDGETS! MIDGETS! MIDGETS!

In opening it, I saw a picture that will haunt me and the future generations of my family after I die. I'm sorry, I just had to share.
Die spammers die die die!

Eloi Tsabaoth

11:14 / 11.11.02

Baz Auckland sez "I thought the ad was to help you find porn for yourself!"

Oh, it clearly is. Look at the expression on his face. The cheeky raised eyebrow, the lascivious grin. He's riding the pink surfboard as we speak.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:20 / 11.11.02

Jade- "MIDGETS! MIDGETS! MIDGETS!" please tell more. Please.

I NEVER get decent midget spam.

This is the weirdest spam I've every got:

Calvary Greetings.
I am a preacher with the Seed Harvest Ministry,and I
will like to get advice from you.I believe the advice
I need is secular to some extent,but do have the
patience to understand my intention.
A few year's ago I was in Liberia w
ere I had
established a little congregation where I preached
regularly,but the civil war escaleted and the church
was converted to a hospital of sourghts. On one faith
full day three Nigerian Soldiers came to me and left
trunks of Money with me an
swore to come back for it.

What. the. fuck?

Eloi Tsabaoth

11:16 / 16.01.04

Was that all? Presumably the spammer jabbed the send button a little too early.
"Damn! Sent it before I added the bit about sending their bank details! That was the most fiendishly cunning part..."

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