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Up until very recently my grandpa would use fax to send complaints to just about anything. It was about as stereotypical grumpy old man as you can imagine. He's
by vegardx 6y ago
Up until very recently my grandpa would use fax to send complaints to just about anything. It was about as stereotypical grumpy old man as you can imagine. He's a good person, just old-school formal when he writes. Comes of as a bit ... harsh.
I thought it was going to end when they dismantled the analog network, and his fax machine with it, but somehow it just got worse. You see, on fax machines you rarely got spam, but on email that's another story. It's hilarious to see the email exchanges he has with some spammers. They've met their worst enemy.
He is more than capable to identify spam, but he doesn't fully understand that, while sent to him, it's nothing personal. He takes it very personal. Very personal. Like, call me late in the evening or during work hours (unheard of for someone in his school) to discuss this outrageous claim that someone made about him. He, like a lot of senior citizen, has a lot of free time. So he naturally replies back. And we're talking full page replies, going into great detail about how they are bad people for doing this to someone like him.
- iandanforth 6y agoI can't wait to be old and have this much free time. I'm going to annoy the heck out of some youngsters.
- drdeadringer 6y ago"Waste what life I have left? I'll not only waste yours but also the potential of what you've got ahead of you."
- waste_monk 6y ago>You see, on fax machines you rarely got spam When I entered the workforce I was surprised to see how much fax spam there was, usually a sheet or two every week. It's tapered off to ~ a couple of sheets per fortnight in recent times though. It is kind of amusing to see fax phishing with personalised cover notes attached to some spam about light furnishings etc. I wish I could do the old "faxing sheets of black paper taped into a loop" trick but I'm sure the scammers are using e-fax now.
- Taniwha 6y agoI used to have a fax number one off of a pharmacy .... I got someone's prescription every week or so ....
- drfuchs 6y agoAu contraire; fax spam was a reasonably big problem: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2-2-trillion-lawsuits-go-after-junk-fax-king-2779390.php https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2-2-trillion-lawsuits...