The source of the plague that saps our strength and destroys our will whenever we spend time on ICQ...

http://www.icqis.com/

The proud team behind the ICQ spambot which is making our lives miserable right now - ICQIS Bot. This filthy little sack of digital pestilence is supposedly designed to search ICQ interest lists and message people automatically about stuff they may be interested in.

In truth, it is used to send The average male ICQ user about ten fake conversations per hour, pretending to be a real person, engaging in an unconvincing chat ("Go fuck yourself with a cactus, spambot!" "Excellent!! I like making new friends with ICQ!!!") and then flinging some porn URL or other, usually a webcam.

I have sent a threat of legal action to icqis@icqis.com stating that I do not wish to receive any more messages via their service, and as such any further contact will be harrassment (though I gave them a week to comply). I thoroughly recommend you do the same. What I find amusing about their site is that their usage policy and testimonials are contradictory.

I hear the distant battle cry of a million pissed-off geeks...

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We could start by taking the email addresses of the fucks that use it and doing nefarious things with them. Like say, oh, I don't know, signing them up for thousands of random porn mailings. That would be a pretty ironic thing for people in the porn business.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

...except that the fucks who use this are hidden behind multiple proxies. I think the best thing we can do is encourage MS to enter the spambot market. Soon, only the MS spambot will be available and it will be so slow and buggy that mass advertising will die to a trickle.

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"You'll burn for this. Burn in jail!"