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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...




"Greetings from the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation"

Well, that's fitting...


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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