I *HATE* political spam.

[damont]

16, count them, **SIXTEEN**, calls to the house phone today. Every single one of them prerecorded political spam.

Well, I'm extrapolating that the 10 dial tones left on the answering machine were also prerecorded political spam. I'll bet they were. Anyone want to take that bet? What, no takers?

I am *SO* tempted to just pull the plug on the house phone until Election Day.

I will also note that I have had to edit this post, updating the numbers therein, **TWICE** while in the process of composing it.

Comments

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

It could be worse. Did you catch the note I left in my LJ this morning about the spam fax?

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Why yes, yes I did. Annoying as @#$^%&!, isn't it...

Very much annoying.

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

Especially when the log does not reveal the originating fax number.

A good solution for a-holes like that is to take 2 pieces of paper, taped together to form a loop, and mark up both sheets with as much black as possible.

I've never done this, but for these guys.... I would have made that exception.

(If only we could send them a bill each for the ink they waste on office faxes... and take them to small claims court...all one bajillion of us that were spammed)

Re: Very much annoying.

[cellio]

A good solution for a-holes like that is to take 2 pieces of paper, taped together to form a loop, and mark up both sheets with as much black as possible.

I'm reminded of the favorite response I heard to Cantor and Siegel, the "green card lawyers" who were responsible for the first commercial spam on Usenet. They had published a fax number for people to respond to; perhaps they knew their email would become unreliable. But they didn't think that through. One poster (wish I could remember who) announced "they seem unfamiliar with the rules of Usenet, so I sent them a copy of Emily Postnews. And just in case they couldn't read it, I sent them a copy of X-Windows. Twice."

I don't know what the page count was on a print-out of the X-Windoes binaries at the time, but it must have been impressive. :-)