How to fight back spammers? Punish spam

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How to fight back spammers? Punish spam

Punish spam in a practical way ideas

silverbytes

1:31 pm on Sep 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

The problem with spam is takes time to fight it.
So the harm you get receiving spam, is more if you need to spen more even time trying to get rid of spam or fight it back.
Tried spamcop.net and was a real waste of time.

So perhaps you could post some useful ideas to bother spammers back (legally)

LifeinAsia

3:36 pm on Sep 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

One word: tactical nuclear strike

kaled

6:58 pm on Sep 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

Find a way to convince governments that spam is helping to fund terrorism - that'll do it for sure.

Kaled.

rocknbil

7:23 pm on Sep 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

Their reserves are endless. Anything you perceive as punishment is only fuel to dump your address onto 100 more spam-lists.

It's probably a total waste of time, but any spam that gets through my filters and has what appears to be a valid reply address and from a US origin, I forward to spam@uce.gov and CC the forward to the spam-monkey. It usually stops those in particular, but they are replaced by ten more.

Before forwarding to spam@uce.gov, be sure you open up any options that reveal the full email header.

Now, I have no indication that this is worth the effort, but it only takes an extra half second on the way to the delete button.

motorhaven

10:47 pm on Sep 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

Use several RBLs to score spam, not just spamcop. Block countries like China and Korea at the firewall level if there's no reason to get legit email from them.

Don't retaliate, they have low ethics and won't think twice of launching a DDOS attack on your server.