I think that prosecuting spammers is far too polite. I had a spammer target
my hotmail account, filling it up with up to 5 of the same e-mail because my
address was in it 5 times. I tried reasoning with them, and they'd say
they'd take me of their list but they never did. So one day I found they
were online at the same time I was because of some e-mails coming in at the
same time. I got their IP address and nuked them. Then I thought - if I
configure my mail client at work to automatically run a program when e-mail
comes in from that person I can do all sorts of things. Over a period of 6
months, I ended up installing a trojan on his pc - thanks to microsoft vbs
support - cheers microsoft! - nuked him several thousand times whenever he
sent an e-mail to me automatically and eventually setup netcat on his pc to
give me a dos prompt via telnet. I then went on to IRC and asked some people
in some leet-hacker channel what it means when you telnet to a dos prompt,
gave them the ip addy and never heard from him again. Apparently they were
all on his machine, having fun with the format command :)
The moral of the story is - legal action can stop a spammer, but trashing
their equipment and making their lives hell is more fun - and less
expensive.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 13 July 2000 14:03
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ADV: High Search Engine Placement
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Michael Waite wrote:
> How is it that this is possible?
> Certainly if this were to be exploited by many more companies such as this
it would diminish the value of this group.
Currently, anyone may post to the list so even people who aren't
subscribed can get answers to their questions.
If more spammers start abusing this fact, we'll have to change it. Also,
just in case someone is listening, spammers abusing this list will have to
face the consequences, abusing a mailing list to distribute spam qualifies
as theft of service which is a crime in pretty much any country in the
world.
LLaP
bero
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