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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 12/15/2004, you wrote:

> How about one of you super programmers/hacker wannabes writing a program 
> that destroys computers that send spam? I give you the idea free of 
> charge. Tell Bill I sent you.

There are groups of people trying to find out who the spammers are just so 
they can send email bombs.  That is one reason for the proliferation of 
worms that hijack computers to send spam.

One of my favorites was a web that generated thousands of bogus email 
addresses.  You put a link on your page then when the email harvesters came 
calling they linked to this site.  It was only a little annoyance to the 
spammers but it did make some feel better.  Besides the harvester bots had 
to be changed to allow for this.

Don Bowen
Awl Knotted Up Woodworking
Valley Center, CA             http://www.braingarage.com