Heh.  One nasty I've heard of, if they have an old thermal fax machine
and you are local to them, is to send them 4 or 5 hours of a continuous
loop of black construction paper...  Run them out of paper & likely kill
their machine!  "Just Say No" in monochrome <VBEG>

  One friend had his modem call a company about 25 times a day, with an
ATDTnumberR dial string, apparently he got their goat somewhat!  (Before
the days of caller ID)

  I heard of a group that once created a club to call some obnoxious
commercial's 800 number from pay phones, every time they had spare
time...  They apparently ran them out of money to the point that they
closed that number...  (They do get a record of the number called from,
I was told, which makes sense I guess.)  I'm not advocating either of
those, mind you, but, well, let's put it this way: If I were going to
choose to piss off someone, I'd TRY not to make an enemy of any engineer
with a bad attitude <G>

  Mark Willis, mwillis@nwlink.com

Timothy D. Gray wrote:
>
> A great approach to spam I have seen is to Jam their mailboxes also with
> junk and complaints... if everyone on this list were to fill out a "send
> me a gob of junk email" card out of a magazine with their address, it
> would give them a dose of their own medicine.. and if you live local...
> fill the fax number with "Quit spamming me" and I dont want your junk
> faxes.. and if you go to trade shows, fill out cards with the spammers
> address :-) we cant get them via email but the USPS can attack for us.
>
> On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Mark Willis wrote:
>
> > These UCE-ing (SPAMMING) JERKS are targetting so many e-mail lists
> > that I'm really NOT amused.  I've mulled over various pic-based
> > responses to them, but am not quite ready to build my own cruise
> > missle.  YET...  They're lucky I live up here not local to them or I'd
> > get folks to call their number & keep it busy so they don't make any
> > sales <VBEG>
> >
> >   Only way I know of to stop these people is to require posts to the
> > list be from a list member ONLY.
> >
> >   Mark Willis, mwillis@nwlink.com
> >