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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by alexdowad on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:38PM (#12960225)
Spamnesty is really amusing! It would be even better if your bot had a wider variety of responses.

I foresee that sooner or later, your bot will get stuck in an endless conversation with a spambot which keeps replying, leading to another round of replies and then another...

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by icebraining on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @04:41AM (#12965650)
https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/zvtbgexy/
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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by el_isma on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @09:06AM (#12966876)
"Greetings from the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation"

Well, that's fitting...

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by StavrosK on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:05PM (#12960475)
Haha, this already happened, I think the 22 response one was a bot. I have a ~8 hour delay before I stop it, so luckily I noticed it and deleted one of my responses.
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