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		UltraFlynn on Dec 30, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time Email isn't free. It seems like it is but actually it takes significant resources to process all the spam. Using a bot to create more traffic is pointless and wasteful. Yours sincerely, A guy who runs the mail transfer agents for an email security provider and has to deal with this every day.

JumpCrisscross on Dec 30, 2017 [–]

Cool. Stop the spam and I’ll quit spamming you back.

UltraFlynn on Dec 31, 2017 | [–]

We do. That's exactly what we do. But honestly the volume of spam is massive already.

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