Subj : Re: What if?
To   : alt.spam,comp.os.linux
From : Star Fleet Admiral Q
Date : Tue Jul 13 2004 02:57 am

Would be a great idea, but most spammers are using someone else's
phished accounts and/or credentials, so they just get a new phished
account, leaving an innocent victim behind with a DOS attack, of
which, is not favored highly in Law Enforcements eyes - even for good
purposes it is not condoned.

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Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service
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"Sweet Anise" <hint@too.little.cough.com> wrote in message
news:slrncf3akr.vkj.sweet@too.little.cough.com...
>   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?

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