On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Lawrence Walker wrote:
Thus sprang forth the Spaminator! The
Spaminator is something I threw
together in about 10 minutes. What the Spaminator does is call the
offendor's number, wait for the voicemail to answer, dial a digit to cut
thru the outgoing message, then it starts singing simple tunes by playing
"spam" in different notes. I recorded a "spam" scale with my
own voice.
Basically I sang "spam" starting from A and going to G.
I created 10 different song files, with simple tunes such as "Mary Had a
Little Spam", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Spam", "Happy
Spamday", "We
Shall
Overcome (the spam)", "Jingle Spam", "Popeye the Sailor
Spam", and a
few
others. The Spaminator randomly selects three spam tunes to play for
each
call. It plays the tunes, then hangs up and calls right back up again.
The Spaminator is currently running, filling up the spammers voicemail box
with spam tunes. Hopefully, it will fill up the voicemail box and they
won't be able to receive any other messages. Also, it will bring them
much anguish as they constantly try to delete these messages that don't
stop coming.
I can't remember if I followed up with a status report, but if I remember
correctly, I forgot The Spaminator was running and let it go for a good 6
hours (costing my company close to maybe $200 in phone charges) until I
checked in on it. When I did, the offender's mailbox was full. A couple
days later when I called the number up, it was disconnected.
Coincidence? You be the judge.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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