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["Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
>
> 
> > And also the reason it would be easy to set
> > up an distributed anti-spam network and crush
> > these unethical punks to bits.
> 
> I like your thinking...
> 
> > Spammers have been tolerated for long enough.
> 
> > It's time to go to war.
> 
> > The Spam War will force regulation b/c the
> > spammers will want it. The regulations will
> > be written to bring the anti-spam network
> > down -- but that's okay, b/c it's purpose
> > will have been served.
> 
> > (BTW, I don't go to war very often, but
> > when I do, I do it to win.)
> 
> Amen brother.
> 
> Where's the e-recruiting station? I wanna join the fight. I 
> can get some 
> friends overseas to join the war too (also tired of spam).
> 
> Distributed-war against spam?
> 
> Maybe we can set-up a Linux daemon to "fight" spammers 
> (spamward). There are 
> many Linux users that are also tired of spam. Just think: one 
> [e-mail | ping 
> | name-your-method]  a minute directed to a single spammer box, times 
> | [the
> number of usrers of this spamward] amounts to a pretty big 
> hit. Then, you 
> switch target every hour.
> 
> I say that in one month, spammers will be down to their knees.
> 
> Should we keep developing this idea?
> 

Absolutely! Why stop with 'name your method' directed against only a
single spammer box at a time? Since it's a distributed war against email
terror (ahem...I mean, spam), how about compiling a list of spammer
boxes and distributing this list to everybody on the spamward (to
distribute the outgoing mail processing), with the list updated
periodically, and then forward every piece of spam that you receive to
this list? That way every spammer on the list will receive every piece
of spam that every user on the spamward receives. Fight the spam with
spam!

- Bill