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JavaJones

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Pranking a telemarketer - priceless!
« on: October 25, 2006, 02:52 AM »
http://howtoprankatelemarketer.ytmnd.com/

This is fantastic. I wonder if it's legal to imply this kind of stuff though. :P

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Re: Pranking a telemarketer - priceless!
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2006, 03:06 AM »
OMG! hahahaha Thats classic! Wow, I am going to have to start doing this.
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Re: Pranking a telemarketer - priceless!
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2006, 03:10 AM »
Very funny

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Re: Pranking a telemarketer - priceless!
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2006, 11:13 AM »
sounded fake to me, but funny idea.

i only wish we could do that to a much worse creature, the email spammers.

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Re: Pranking a telemarketer - priceless!
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2006, 05:29 PM »
True! Spam is probably my #1 irritant with computers today. Not that I have to deal with a ton of it necessarily as I have decent spam filters, but I do have to review their work, and my customers complain about it a fair bit. It's very frustrating having to say you can't really do something about it. Although it's funny, most people are used to the junk they get in their postal mail and can't get rid of. Then again most of that isn't ads for erection pills, diet pills, or "hot stocks". :P

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Re: Pranking a telemarketer - priceless!
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2006, 04:09 PM »
True! Spam is probably my #1 irritant with computers today. Not that I have to deal with a ton of it necessarily as I have decent spam filters, but I do have to review their work, and my customers complain about it a fair bit.
Google Mail has optimized its filters pretty good, hardly anything is labeled wrong. I now only check the spam folder every 10 days or so, the amount of false positives is pretty damn low!
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It's very frustrating having to say you can't really do something about it.
You just need email addresses like jimyhendriks_yes_two_m_and_with_x_at_the_end@mail.com ;)
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Re: Pranking a telemarketer - priceless!
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2006, 07:27 PM »
Hehe, true, making way longer and more complex addresses might help. As long as they were human-memorable, it'd at least make the spammers work a lot harder to reach actual people.

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