What is the best punishment for spammers?

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Lifer
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Originally posted by: vash
Without complete physical violence, the best method is Chinese water torture. For each piece of spam they sent, they get that many drops. Some of the nasty spammers send hundreds of millions of pieces of spam a day, I figure with that many drops, they'll crack in a few hours.

vash

I thought the whole idea behind water torture is that it's slow and patient.

Otherwise, you're just giving them a shower. :p
 

flood

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being a washington state resident, i can sue certain spammers for $500 per email i get. I'm trying to track down one guy... his domain registration info is all false tho. :(
 

Siddhartha

Lifer
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Originally posted by: LordRaiden
Everyone knows that spam is one of the greatest plagues of the internet. If spammers could be brought to justice, what do you believe would be the best and most apropriate punishment for their crimes?

Have 10,000 people to spam them back.

 

MrsHoneybee

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Originally posted by: radioouman
Originally posted by: brxndxn
Make them give me money for all my pain and suffering.



Originally posted by: yowolabi
Have them rewrite by hand all spam messages they have ever sent out onto sheets of paper. Then have them eat the paper.

Make them write 100 lines each of all the spam messages they've sent.
 

LordRaiden

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Hmm, 7 people think Spammers are cool. Must be all 7 of those people are spammers? :D

Interesting. We've got mail spammers on ATOT! Anyone for a virtual linching? hehehe.
 

neutralizer

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Originally posted by: CurtCold
Tar and Feather them. I had some chick sending me spam for the last month, always a different email addy. I replied back to her last week with some choice words, haven't gotten one sense.

First time that has worked. I hate Spam....The email stuff, nothing beats spamburger!

Hey, I want that letter!