I am as amused by antispam efforts as anyone, but can we stay on list topic? George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Jun 13, 2012, at 19:39, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
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On Jun 13, 2012, at 9:01 PM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
A trick to do on mail (USPS) spammers is take the prepaid mailing = envelope they often include and tape it to a brick wrapped in brown = paper and drop it off at the post office. They have to pay the shipping. = If enough people do it, they go out of business.
That's simply false; local postmasters have had the discretion to discard your bricks for years, AND THEY DO.
Yes... Bricks don't work any more. You have to get more creative.
http://www.dogdoo.com offers a selection of products ideally suited for this purpose.
In this case, do anything you can to waste his time and resources. Call = up and act interested in his services and have them go through their = sales pitch as many times as you can. Ask for them to mail you = literature. Have them write up proposals and quotes. Then when the last = step left is to actually commit to their service tell them you were just = pulling their chain, and why. If you eat up enough of their time they = end up attending to too few real paying customers and they go out of = business.
But that, on the other hand ...
Not mutually exclusive.
Owen