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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