Spamfighting Since the Death of MakeLoveNotSpam?

Posted by Cliff on Monday December 27, 2004 @11:59AM from the keep-your-junk-out-of-my-inbox-KTHX dept.

vacuum_tuber asks: "The now-defunct Lycos anti-spamsite screen saver, MakeLoveNotSpam, was extremely well received despite the whines and hand wringing from the no-one-should-ever-actively-defend-themselves crowd. There was speculation after its demise that Open Source spam-punishing tools would emerge. Other tools such as SpamVampire, LadVampire (punishes fake bank sites), Spam Research Tool and others were mentioned with increasing frequency, but there has been no coherent followup to gauge what people are doing since the death of the Lycos screen saver. What are you doing that you think is effective in punishing spammers or their spam-site sponsors?"

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Stop buying spamervertised products by Lead+Butthead · 2004-12-27 12:10 · Score: 1, Redundant

Otherwise for every spammer ... removed, there will be ten new spammers to take its' place.

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Re:Spamvampire works by dasunt · 2004-12-27 17:41 · Score: 0, Redundant

DogDude writes:

I use Spamvampire almost constantly. It works great. It sucks up their bandwidth, and while it doesn't DOS them, it does make the business of spam a hell of a lot less financially viable.

J. Random Skriptkiddie thanks you. If everyone did what you are doing, DDOS attacks would be as simple as running a few fake spam emails through the nearest open relay. Right now, DDOS attacks are limited to mainly zombie networks, which takes more care and feeding.