The difficulty I see would be co-ordinating such an effort so that it would have an impact. On an individual level there really aren't enough technically literate people to have an impact(now posting a spam site here and letting the/. effect take hold is another matter...perhaps we could nominate the spam-site-of-the-week for posting?), then an ISP level, no ISP is going to risk the liability that would cause. The secondary problem, particularly with an automated response-type system would be inadvertently DDOS'ing or swamping a legitimate company. Think how many spammers use relays, redirectors, and spoofed addresses. Nothing like mangling a legit mom-and-pop shop to make our community look good.
-Shadowkat
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Would that mean he's operating at 150%?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/02/11/instan tmessenger.ad.ap/index.html
Looks like even the AV companies might be blocking it soon.
-Shadowkat
Quality bears? I'm a poor tech college student too, but I've never bought bears... *grins* -Shadowkat
The difficulty I see would be co-ordinating such an effort so that it would have an impact. On an individual level there really aren't enough technically literate people to have an impact(now posting a spam site here and letting the /. effect take hold is another matter...perhaps we could nominate the spam-site-of-the-week for posting?), then an ISP level, no ISP is going to risk the liability that would cause. The secondary problem, particularly with an automated response-type system would be inadvertently DDOS'ing or swamping a legitimate company. Think how many spammers use relays, redirectors, and spoofed addresses. Nothing like mangling a legit mom-and-pop shop to make our community look good.
-Shadowkat