Paid To Spam

Lathiat writes "It seems that spammers have taken a new distributed approach to sending spam, and you get paid for it. Virtual MDA will pay you $1 per CPU hour their program is running to relay spam around the world. Obviously this is not something you should do, most users are all to familiar with the atrocity of sorting through up to hundreds of spams a day just to find one real email, Although it has been previously reported that some users love spam, I for one don't. Is there any way end users can fight back against people like this?" At $1/hour, this sounds like a low-gain way to infuriate both your friends and perfect strangers.

Comments

Free Cash $$$

[Lord Apathy]

What is to stop me from signing up for this, taking thier cash, and routing thier crap right to /dev/null?

Take their money and throw out the spam

[antarctican]

I wonder, is there any way one could setup a dummy machine between your "CPU" and the internet to trick this software into thinking it's sending out spam? Some kind of dummy MTA that responds to all outbound port 25 requests and "accepts" all emails.

It would be fantastic! Take the spammers money and have all their spam flow into a big blackhole. This has possibilities....