Dealing with spammers
Lycos earlier this week released a screen saver which helps combat spam by sending request to known spam sites thus eroding their bandwidth. The product was designed not to bring the spammer's sites down, but to make it very expesive for the spammers to operate. The product is called Make Love Not Spam.
Hours later the scum sucking spammers and their hack culture twinkeltoes launched a counterattack against them.
People who claim moral high ground say that Lycos was wrong. To make spammers stop spamming you must talk to them, and if that doesn't work you must talk to them a second time. They say that open internet warfare will solve nothing.
They are half right. If you want to stop spammers quickly and easily you can give them a warning if you want, they are only going to spam you for it. Internet warfare is an Ok solution I suppose, but the only real way to be sure is to find the spammers and shotgun them, at least twice. Its time to stop pussy footing around.
Comments
If we can only find a way to convince the FCC that P2P'ers are using spam to send mp3's... Don't kick down grandmother's door because her 12 year old granddaughter is trading a couple of Spongebob shows or O`Town. Kick it down because she's running a bulk mail spammer to sell tea cozies filled with Encyte from Canada.
Posted by: Jeffrey | December 1, 2004 12:23 PM