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Very good show that is great don't feel guilty it's too bad we can't have that kind of fun now just imagine how much frustration that got rid of without guns cars bombs or violence.
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> On Apr 25, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Martin G. McCormick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I did exactly the same thing in the early nineties
> shortly after I started working for OSU's IT center. I got
> a spam message from something called "Fortune5000" with a
> toll-free number which I called to complain about the spam.
>
> When you called Fortune5000, you had to first listen to
> a prerecorded bit of babble from some guy whose last name was
> Michaels. You then got to talk to a live representative who
> would reel you in. When I called to bellyache, Michaels, himself
> answered. I told him in no uncertain terms that I did not
> appreciate commercial advertising messages and that he shouldn't
> be doing this at all. Bozo hung up on me which made me mad as a
> hornet.
>
> For the next 3 or 4 days, I called Fortune5000 on
> several lines and conferenced them together so the
> representatives ended up talking to each other and wondering why
> this was happening.
>
> They never heard my voice at all but one day, one of the
> reps said, "We need to tell Mr. Michaels our phones are all
> messed up again."
>
> I felt happy hoping that he would maybe call his
> telephone company and they would check everything out and decide
> he was an idiot.
>
> Should I have done this? Of course not. Was it childish?
> You bet. Do I feel bad? Absolutely not. This was some kind of
> multilevel marketing scam and I have no idea what eventually
> happened to Bozo Michaels who didn't even show one bit of
> remorse for spamming half the internet.
>
> What he saw would have been several calls from Oklahoma
> State University's outdial trunks which all had a single number
> that could have been any one of ten-thousand possible telephones
> on the campus. Unless one did something really stupid such as
> threaten violence, the odds of anything happening were extremely
> small.
>
> Soon after, OSU upgraded it's outdials and Caller ID
> began showing actual extension numbers. When spammers were
> especially brazen, I would go to pay telephones on occasion and
> jerk their chains a bit.
>
> Ah, the good old days when you could actually tell where
> the spam was coming from and really be as much of a pest as they
> were.
>
> Martin WB5AGZ
>
> Dave Allen writes:
>> Hi Phil!
>>
>> Ten years later, I took a leaf out of your book.
>>
>> Do you remember the World Tomorrow Program? They had a big call center
>> that
>> took orders for all of Garner Ted's books and tapes, etc. They had a toll
>> free number, and I had 3-way calling so I couldn't resist the possibility.
>>
>> I called once, then went to three way and quickly had the two calls
>> conferenced at the right timing.
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