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Yes! Revenge finally on junk mail senders!

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    #32
    Feral Mutant
    Registered Users Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Feral Mutant


    Fad wrote:
    DONT include you name/address theyll either send it back, or take you off the list, if they take you off the list you wont be able to send more stuff.
    I'd be more worried about them sending more stuff and passing on my address to their fellow spammers to get their own back.


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    #33
    Fad
    Registered Users Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    stuff gets sent out with your address as a free post :p


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    #34
    scojones
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    Moved from After Hours.


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    #35
    johnp
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    Feral Mutant wrote:
    I'd be more worried about them sending more stuff and passing on my address to their fellow spammers to get their own back.

    But if you don't send your name/address they won't know who sent it.
    So unless they send more stuff to everyone.......


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    #36
    Feral Mutant
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    johnp wrote:
    But if you don't send your name/address they won't know who sent it.
    So unless they send more stuff to everyone.......
    Which is why I'd worry about including my name and address. Still, if anyone tries this and gets less junk, let us know.


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    #37
    [Deleted User]
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    faceman wrote:
    somebody please think of the postman! :D
    Great, it'll keep him in a job.


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    #38
    johnp
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    Feral Mutant wrote:
    Which is why I'd worry about including my name and address. Still, if anyone tries this and gets less junk, let us know.

    Sorry, read your previous mail wrong.
    Totally agree, don't include you name/address.


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    #39
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    ROFL

    20Kg, who needs wheelie bins ?


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    #40
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    if only we could get back at spam senders, i'm sick and tired of their crap, my penis is big enough dammit!


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    #41
    humbert
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    scojones wrote:
    Moved from After Hours.

    /is baffled.


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    #42
    Steoob
    Registered Users Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭Steoob


    haha this is the best idea ive heard in a long time... OP you should never opt out of things, its their way of confirming your address which they sell to other spam companies...


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    #43
    Stephen
    Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    wtf is this doing on the security board?

    Great take on and old idea though OP :D


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    #44
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    :D:D:D:D:D
    Now I know what to do when i get yet another letter from a particular credit card company.


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    #45
    Access
    Registered Users Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭Access


    How the bloody hell did this get moved to tech - security????

    After hours is about general conversation topics - what has revenge got to do with tech? Not happy... can a mod check this??!!


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    #46
    Access
    Registered Users Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭Access


    This topic isnt about email - it about getting revenge on AN POST Junk mail senders...

    Scojones - Shouldn't mods read posts before moving them and not rely on topic headings???


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    #47
    2 stroke
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    Great idea OP. I've been returning freepost envelopes for years but never thought of adding weight. Thank you.
    Regarding spam, one of my email addresses recieves quite a lot of spam and I have recently started to pick one reply address each day and forwarding all of my spam to that address. Maybe if everyone started to do this we could kill the spammers.


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    #48
    Capt'n Midnight
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    2 stroke wrote:
    Regarding spam, one of my email addresses recieves quite a lot of spam and I have recently started to pick one reply address each day and forwarding all of my spam to that address. Maybe if everyone started to do this we could kill the spammers.
    spammers don't user their own addresses so at best it's a complete waste of time and bandwidth, worse you might be spamming an innocent whose address/pc was hijacked


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    #49
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,333 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Feral Mutant wrote:
    If only there was an online equivalent.
    A group on Israel decided to respond to all their junk mail - crashed something like 19 servers in Taiwan.


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    #50
    Black Swan
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    Don't post anything that is a powder to a US company, because of the anthrax scares they have had. They may go bananas and send a complaint to the Gardai. If in the USA, you will more than likely get a visit from those men in black with shades (and Gitmo is very hot this time of year!).


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    #51
    Access
    Registered Users Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭Access


    It more to do with the normal post junk mail that we get in our doors rather then email.


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    #52
    Anti
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    Im gonna have to start doing this myself. Well done OP. A pint on me if your ever at a boards beers !


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    #53
    Reku
    Registered Users Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    Thankfully I don't get much in the way of junk mail so I don't get the same frustration, still well done to you.
    Now if there was a similar way to deal with the electronic junk mail...:mad:


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    #54
    Zebra3
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    johnp wrote:
    Sorry, read your previous mail wrong.
    Totally agree, don't include you name/address.

    Include the name and address of someone you hate.

    Two birds, one stone, etc. :cool:


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    #55
    Fad
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    put stuff in that might ''weird out'' the opener, like ''penis'' in tiny letters on an A3 sheet, a dustpan, and a coffee stained coaster:rolleyes:


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    #56
    Heisenberg.
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    #57
    KdjaCL
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    Zebra3 wrote:
    Include the name and address of someone you hate.

    Two birds, one stone, etc. :cool:


    Whats your name and address?

    :D


    kdjac


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    #58
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    I sent a 'Ryanair credit card application' to a friend in the USA. I tippexed out the return freepost address (somewhere in dublin) and wrote in the USA address. (and a nice note)

    They got it too, probably the only person to get anything out of Ryanair. :p




    Also, too see if it would work, I've posted a letter for free to a friend.

    I put my own address as the destination addresss, neglected to put a stamp on it, and put my friends address as the 'Return To' address.

    Because there is no stamp, it got sent to the return address (which was actually where I needed it to go).


    Messing with the P.O is fun. ;)


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    #59
    Heisenberg.
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    #60
    Feral Mutant
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    Zebra3 wrote:
    Include the name and address of someone you hate.

    Two birds, one stone, etc. :cool:
    Or do it to two junk companies, giving each the address of the other one. After sending a few things, start to include messages like "REVENGE" or "THIS'LL TEACH YOU TO SEND US YOUR CRAP". See if you can get them to start sending the stuff themselves (no idea how you'd know if they did though).
    The-Rigger wrote:
    Also, too see if it would work, I've posted a letter for free to a friend.

    I put my own address as the destination addresss, neglected to put a stamp on it, and put my friends address as the 'Return To' address.

    Because there is no stamp, it got sent to the return address (which was actually where I needed it to go).


    Messing with the P.O is fun. ;)
    Did that work? I had that idea before and thought I had discovered a way to send free post but was told it wouldn't work because apparently you have to pay to get back something sent without a stamp.


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    #61
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    While funny the letters have a fixed price.

    So the junk mailer is not loosing any extra money. If anything you are placing a burden on Anpost who will just up the price of everything to cover the extra work. Also if something other then a letter shows up they will just bin it.

    Now if you just put a different junk mail into the letters then it has to go through the opening process. That is costing the money to the company.


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