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Fighting The Spammers Down Under
An Anonymous Coward writes: "The Sydney Morning Herald is running an interesting article about fighting spammers. It mentions that "Most of today's email spam, however, comes from a handful of culprits, described by Barry and others as "known criminals"." Does anybody else wonder who these people are, and what are the odds of having them shut down for good?"
A good solution for spammers is to track them down, post their addresses for everyone to see, and hold spam bashing parties, in which many, many people make a roadtrip to 'encourage' the spammer not to spam anymore. Such encouragements could be things like, VX, a sock with a cueball in it, small rabid animals, and herpes.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
so I'll spam as first post just to make this ontopic
What you can do:
Go to war!
Sue!
And win!
or...
Join them!
Finally, someone has come to recognized my preferred solution to fight spammers: kick them in the genitals.
Or did you mean something else by "Fighting The Spammers Down Under"?
Anyone can spam: from "a 6 year old guy", to "dr.evil" to "mr. good guy that is trying to solve world hunger". So you want different penalties: kill evil guy, warn good guy, educate kid.
Dr. Evil should be executed, that much is certain. But let's look at the other ones.
The six year old shouldn't even be allowed to USE a computer at that age. Clearly by then he has been exposed to the filth and depravity that lurks in the black heart of the Internet, so he is a wasted life. Ergo, he should be executed. Also, his parents have shown their failings by not being able to bring the child up correctly, and should be executed as well, along with any other close relatives.
Finally, the so-called "good guy" MUST be executed. It would mean one less mouth to feed, after all, thus making a valuable contribution to solving world hunger. His carcass can then be processed, and his essential proteins extracted to feed others, "Soylent Green" style.
Clearly, 99% of the world's problems can be solved by giving over-caffeinated Aryans access to automatic weapons and a "Get out of Jail for Free" card.
Find a "smapper"? Shoot him. In the legs first, then in the hands, so he cannot type again. Then drag his filthy sub-breed family out of their trailer and shoot them in front of him. Kick him in the face until his tears of grief subside into silent, grim acceptance of his fate. Then make him watch, as you molest the bodies. Take a staple gun to his eyelids so he is obliged to see every orgasmic thrust.
Then tell him. "This is your fault. Spam caused this to happen. But you'll never learn will you?" So you walk over to him, cock proudly erect and glistening with the blood and other fluids of his beloved ones. And start to rub it, inches from his face. Then, at the "Vinegar Stroke", shoot him between the eyes.
It's the only way to be sure...
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Did it ever occur to you these clowns are using an e-mail fax service, which bills by page amount and not time? So you're actually costing the innocent fax service money, not the spammer.
;-)
Now 50 pages of greyscale might be interesting
"I'll just chip in a bit for RedHat: I actually have that installed on my university machine." - Linus, '95
I get a lot of spam from the 127.0.0.0/8 netblock from some weirdo telling me I'm a spammer myself. I keep complaining but it doesn't seem to help.
Esli epei etot cumprenan, shris soa Sfaha.
Have you ever looked at the headers from a spam? There's a good chance it was bounced off an open relay in China. Take a look at the Spamcop weekly open relay statistics.
These are very hard to get fixed, mostly because of the language barrier. Still, if you're particularly evil, you can always email the administrator thanking them for providing such a valuable resource for Falun Gong/Free Tibet.