[oclug] I am angry. Spam went to far today. Want to fight back.

[William Case]

Thanks Andy;

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 00:06 -0400, Andy Civil wrote:
> William Case wrote:
[snip]
> You can't. It's not just that they don't have email addresses, they 
> don't even use their own computers; rather, they harvest botnets
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet#Formation_and_exploitation
> to do the work for them.
> 
> If you wish to help slap the spammers, here is one way to do it
> http://www.p2pnet.net/story/5304
> but I have serious misgivings about the efficacy of such a scheme; 
> spammers are extremely unlikely to pay for their bandwidth, and if they 
> do, they'll do it with a stolen credit card.
I visited those sites.  You have now raised the bar for me.  I started
out with a rant because I was offended one morning by material that I
didn't want to read and offended that a friend's mail disappeared into a
bunch of garbage because of her name.

Now I have to decide if I really want to put my money where my mouth is.

-- 
Regards Bill