Slashdot Mirror
Exposing Spammers For All They're Worth
llywrch points out this interesting story at Art & Farces in which a "guy fights spammers by occasionally sending an email telling the spammer to leave him alone or he'll bill for time & services. Some take him off their mailing list, some pay the bill, but most don't respond . . . except one guy who was so incensed at receiving this invoice he had his lawyers send a threatening note. Makes it easier for Fraase to collect on his invoice."
Is that a record?
I've submitted the details of my success twice to slashdot but my stories are always rejected.
Yep. slashdot is just B R O K E N .
I suggest you try kuro5hin.org instead.
You sure showed them. And just think, now that you spent 10 minutes writing a reply, sending it to the spammers, and bragging about it on slashdot, you have a lot more in damages to sue them over then the 1 second of your time to hit the delete key.
You have no idea what damage "spam" does do you? You think the "Slashdot effect" is profound? How about the effect that spam has on ISPs but to mention people who have their email boxes needlessly filled with crap. Furthermore, thanks to vulnerabilities ala Microsoft, users are exposed to even more of such annoyances through pop-ups and pop-unders.
The annoyance at users', ISPs' and mail adminstrators' expenses should be halted. The argument "just delete it" doesn't hold water since in most cases the email must be opened and downloaded in order to delete it.
Furthermore, I will add that porn spam, which exists in many forms has a special place in my angry heart. I'm a father of two sons. They don't need this crap in their boxes. Additionally, they don't need to read anything about penis enlargement, breast enhancements, herbal viagra or any other such related information.
"Delete" yes -- Delete the spammer at the source, not the destination.
Actually yes, they usually are.