Subj : What if?
To   : alt.spam, comp.os.linux
From : Sweet Anise
Date : Sun Jul 11 2004 06:01 pm

  What if everyone with broadband decided to do exactly
what the spammers asked?  That is, download their index
pages?  Since the spammers ask over and over, the 
hypothetical situation might possibly call for downloading
these pages over and over.

  What if everyone who received a spam from, for instance,
lender-home.com (and I use this in the example simply 
because it's the most recent one that circumvented my
spam filters) activated a little script to grab the page 
a thousand or a few thousand times?

  What if spammers only stay in business because they
make money?  What if bandwidth usage became so monumental
that spamming began to COST money?  Would the hosts of
spammer companies begin to charge more?  Would they 
begin to enforce/insert no-spam clauses in their AUPs?


$ cat lender-home

#! /bin/bash
h=http://spam.lender-home.com/?
for i in spammer/*
do
url=$h$i
wget $url
rm index*
done


$ cd spammer
$ ls
jerkwad
idiot
stupid_spammer
stop_spamming_me
take_me_off_your_list
<dozens/hundreds of more profane nature>
.... 
you get the point

  Would they?

.