IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop Spammers

bblazer writes "CNN Money is running a story about a new IBM service that spams the spammers. The idea behind the technology is that when a spam email is received, it is immediately sent back to the originating computer - not an email account. From the article, ""We're doing it to shut this guy down," Stuart McIrvine, IBM's director of corporate security strategy, told the paper. "Every time he tries to send, he gets slammed again."""

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Re:The UNITED STATES of LARD

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh no! Those skinny communist unamerican terrorists are on slashdot!

Re:He?

[Valafar]

*THIS* is insightful? Although modern english grammar allows for "she", it is correct to use "he" to describe any person male or female without a sexist component.

Re:The UNITED STATES of LARD

[grub]

HAHAHAHAHA!
Best troll I've seen in a while.

Someone(s) sending spam from my email address

[zotz]

Someone(s) is sending spam pretending to be from my email address lately and I am getting tons of bounces, delivery failure notices, etc. Quite a pain.

Anyone else dealing with this? How do you cope? Right now I am still on the "suffer through" phase.

all the best,

drew

Thanks!

[DaveAtFraud]

I haven't had this good of a laugh in a long time. All the heated debates about why it can't work based on different assumptions of how *it doesn't work* are hilarious. The link to IBM is appreciated.

Adding insult to injury, it also appears that one of our all-knowing moderators has then modded you down (comment was at 3 when I first read it, now it's at 2) probably for insulting slashduh. Of course, this comment of mine will get modded down, too, for daring to insult the moderators.