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Fighting The Spammers Down Under

Posted by timothy on from the squash-foot-squash dept.

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 &quotknown criminals&quot." Does anybody else wonder who these people are, and what are the odds of having them shut down for good?"

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  1. Final Solution by Renraku · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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    Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
  2. Sue a Spammer! by thecarson · · Score: 3, Funny

    What you can do:

    Go to war!
    Sue!
    And win!
    or...
    Join them!

  3. Yes, fight them down under! by Dr.+Awktagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"?

  4. Re:it has to be profitable... by hyrdra · · Score: 3, Funny

    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 ;-)

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    "I'll just chip in a bit for RedHat: I actually have that installed on my university machine." - Linus, '95
  5. Re:99/1 rule on spammers by pne · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    Esli epei etot cumprenan, shris soa Sfaha.