On Wed, 1 May 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Scott Barker: > > You might want to consider saving some of the junkmail (perhaps > > a database holding about 5Meg worth of junkmail), and send each > > spammer a copy of each o f those junk mails, just so they know > > how it feels :) Preface each one with "Gee, your junk mail was > > really boring. Perhaps you could take some hints fro m this > > one..." That would also make it *very* hard for the spammer to > > ignore bounced-back mail. > > Don't do that. Mail bombing is worse than junk mail.
yeah, i tend to agree. Which is why i decided not to send core dumps etc, and only to return the original message back to the evil junkmail perpetrator (several times :-). I'm still vaguely tempted by the mail-bomb lottery idea, though. a 1 in 100 chance of getting a useless binary file attached to the returned junkmail. hmmm...anyone know of any mime type for compressed text? hopefully one which gets automatically decompressed by the users MUA. I can see useful potential in 'dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1024 | script', where 'script' creates a compressed text mime attachment :-) achieves maximum inconvenience for the spammer, without wasting bandwidth or causing problems for innocent users on the same system. Craig
