Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
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Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
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Re: Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
#2Really cool. Two remarks:
1) If lots of people start using this, spammers might learn to avoid wasting time with Mnesty's CEO. Having a few more fake companies would help.
2) The bot could probably be made a lot smarter with some natural language processing. But it seems to fill its purpose pretty well already. I think this just shows how desperate for leads spammers are.
Re: Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
#3I usually just pretend that i just killed someone to get the money they asked for.
Re: Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
#4In my days we called this an autobaiter :)
Re: Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
#5This seems like a noble endeavor which will be useful (albeit under different names over time, I assume) right up until the spammers start using bots to hold their ends of conversations, to make their own operations more efficient.
Re: Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
#6Really cool. Two remarks: 1) If lots of people start using this, spammers might learn to avoid wasting time with Mnesty's CEO. Having a few more fake companies would help. 2) The bot could probably be made a lot smarter with some natural language processing. But it seems to fill its purpose pretty well already. I think this just shows how desperate for leads spammers are.
1) Yeah, there's support for multiple domains, but I have no domains right now :) If anyone wants to donate one, please open an issue!
2) Exactly, they're so desperate for leads that they will spend lots of time chasing someone who doesn't appear to make lots of sense.
Re: Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
#7I have never understood what were the goals of these messages. People saying they have a fund of millions. Is everything arranged for me to send money to them? Simpĺe as that?
Re: Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
#8Really cool. Two remarks: 1) If lots of people start using this, spammers might learn to avoid wasting time with Mnesty's CEO. Having a few more fake companies would help. 2) The bot could probably be made a lot smarter with some natural language processing. But it seems to fill its purpose pretty well already. I think this just shows how desperate for leads spammers are.
1) Yeah, there's support for multiple domains, but I have no domains right now :) If anyone wants to donate one, please open an issue! 2) Exactly, they're so desperate for leads that they will spend lots of time chasing someone who doesn't appear to make lots of sense.
Another important one: I just had to delete a conversation because my email was still in there. You should probably make the email stripping more aggressive, and make it look throughout the whole email.
Edit: just noticed I get a chance to edit the conversation. That's pretty cool, although of course it would be even better if I didn't have to :-D
Re: Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
#9The problem with Spam has always been the minuscule cost of doing it. If the cost can rise above the profit, spam could become unattractive. Imagine if spam attracted a sudden swarm of bots, just as a new email addy attracts spammers now.
Re: Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
#10This seems like a noble endeavor which will be useful (albeit under different names over time, I assume) right up until the spammers start using bots to hold their ends of conversations, to make their own operations more efficient.
If they do so they will likely lose the very few leads that actually earn them money. Remember, for them it's a real business.