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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: August 03, 2002 Growing a Spam Killing Community (WebWord) -- "The purpose of this article is to discuss how to eliminate spam through a community of spammer killers. Why take a passive role in spam elimination and why use up precious time and complex tools to track down one spammer? Instead, let's create a community of spammer hunters to track them down and wipe them out, using their own methods against them. Forget killing spam, let's kill the spammers."
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I've simply given up. When a spammer gets my address, I establish a new address and put a 'vacation' message on the old one. Legitimate people who do not begin using my new address get my vacation message that tells them their mail has been deleted and that they should contact me by phone to get my new address. If you want to do something about spam, complain to your local corporation. Apply corporate pressure to the politicians until they do something about spam. 1) Find the politician who owns real estate in your area, at OpenSecrets.org. 2) Click on "Top Contributors" to see who funds the politician. 3) Complain to one or all of the corporations about the politician. It's not rocket science folks. When you get bad customer service in a store, you ask to speak to the manager. Same difference. The corporations want us to continue buying their products, so they have a stake in keeping us happy. Posted by: Jack on August 3, 2002 02:30 PM
I've been in this discussion before. The trouble is that you might accidently get the wrong person and if you do Denial of Service attacks, you'll hurt other people. A email bomb eats up bandwidth from you to the target and uses up space on the ISP's drive. Also, if a spammer goes through a chain of proxies and anonymous remailers, good luck finding them. Posted by: Morris Cox on August 5, 2002 10:50 AM
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