Re: SlashDotting spammers

How about getting more people to use SURBLs, so once the spam sites get listed, they get a lot less traffic? The silent treatment may be better. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: SlashDotting spammers

--On Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:34 PM -0700 Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So what happens when said site is hosted by a legitimate web host which acts on complaints? You end up driving up said hosting company's bandwidth bills and (more importantly) very likely taking down other si

Re: SlashDotting spammers

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:05:30AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: > Kenneth Porter writes: > > Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the SlashDot > > effect could be used for good by getting everyone to visit the > > spammer's site and take it to its knees, while driving up the > > spa

Re: SlashDotting spammers

> Steve Bertrand wrote: >>>Finally, I would suggest that bombarding their purchasing forms with >>>valid-looking purchase data, might work better. >> >> >> As someone who deals with the consequences of DoS attacks, I >> disagree >> firmly with that approach, however...the above idea seems very >> e

Re: SlashDotting spammers

Steve Bertrand wrote: Finally, I would suggest that bombarding their purchasing forms with valid-looking purchase data, might work better. As someone who deals with the consequences of DoS attacks, I disagree firmly with that approach, however...the above idea seems very entertaining and I was LMA

Re: SlashDotting spammers

> Finally, I would suggest that bombarding their purchasing forms with > valid-looking purchase data, might work better. As someone who deals with the consequences of DoS attacks, I disagree firmly with that approach, however...the above idea seems very entertaining and I was LMAO when I read it..

Re: SlashDotting spammers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Porter writes: > Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the SlashDot effect > could be used for good by getting everyone to visit the spammer's site and > take it to its knees, while driving up the spammer's bandwidth bill. Ch

RE: SlashDotting spammers

--On Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:31 AM -0400 Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Reisstinnng urge to crack joke..feeling rising..so .so difficult to not.arghhh.p.. *pop* I think there's a pill for that. And even if there's not, someone should soo

Re: SlashDotting spammers

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Chris Santerre wrote: On a related note, is anyone seeing the main spamassassin site down now? -Dan List Whore -- "One...plus two...plus one...plus one." -Tim Curry, Clue Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: La

RE: SlashDotting spammers

>-Original Message- >From: Dan Mahoney, System Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:06 PM >To: Chris Santerre >Cc: 'Jim Maul'; users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: SlashDotting spammers > > >On Thu, 23 Se

Re: SlashDotting spammers

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:21:24 -0400 Jim Maul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:11:39 -0700 > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Kenneth Porter wrote: > >> > Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the > >> > SlashDot

RE: SlashDotting spammers

>-Original Message- >From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:21 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: SlashDotting spammers > > >Quoting Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Thu, 23 Sep 2

Re: SlashDotting spammers

Quoting Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:11:39 -0700 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kenneth Porter wrote: > Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the > SlashDot effect could be used for good by getting everyone to > visit the spammer's site and take it to its knee

Re: SlashDotting spammers

On Thursday, September 23, 2004, 6:42:21 AM, Raquel Rice wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:11:39 -0700 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IMO the best way to combat spam is not to buy the advertised >> product. > That seems like a no-brainer. What do I need a penis extender for? I'm not touching th

Re: SlashDotting spammers

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:11:39 -0700 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kenneth Porter wrote: > > Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the > > SlashDot effect could be used for good by getting everyone to > > visit the spammer's site and take it to its knees, while driving > > up the spam

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--On Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:13 AM -0400 Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3) this could be profitable for the spammer if the link is on a click-based ad revenue generation system. At least until the ad supplier catches on to it.

Re: SlashDotting spammers

At 01:05 AM 9/23/2004 -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > It makes me wonder if there's some way to grab a random link from SURBL to > consume a spammer's bandwidth allocation. This scheme has been suggested before. There are a couple of reasons why it's not a good idea... And let's not forget: 3) this co

RE: SlashDotting spammers

Kenneth Porter wrote: > Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the SlashDot > effect could be used for good by getting everyone to visit the > spammer's site and take it to its knees, while driving up the > spammer's bandwidth bill. Check out the first few posts in today's > story:

Re: SlashDotting spammers

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:39:11AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the SlashDot effect > could be used for good by getting everyone to visit the spammer's site and > take it to its knees, while driving up the spammer's bandwidth bill. [...] >

SlashDotting spammers

Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the SlashDot effect could be used for good by getting everyone to visit the spammer's site and take it to its knees, while driving up the spammer's bandwidth bill. Check out the first few posts in today's story: