What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam

bednarz writes "For Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., the decision to abandon cyber-sense and invite e-mail spam into her life for a month by participating in a McAfee experiment was a bit of a lark. The idea of the Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment — which fittingly started on April Fool's Day — was to have 50 volunteers from around the world answer every spam message and pop-up ad they got. Mooney was game, especially since McAfee was giving a free PC to all participants. She told her story to Network World."

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Re:I did a bit of a war on spam...

[jez9999]

I figured out a really good system for stopping spam. My server immediately drops ANY incoming SMTP connection. It's dropped my spam to zero, and checking my logs, it really does seem to have stopped an awful lot.