Fighting a spam fire with a DDoS

[James Sissel]

I heard about this from the register (www.theregister.co.uk) Monday and 
download the software.  It's great.  As of this morning over 90,000 users 
were hitting back at the spammers.  The idea is to make it too costly for 
them to run their sites and they close up shop.  I don't see how this will 
slow the web down in the long run.  If we could just close one of them down 
the amount of spam that stops will more than offset the traffic caused by 
this effort.

>This method looks like it is being accepted by the general public.
>I only hope that something positive comes about from it and not
>just more net slow-downs in the long run.
>
>Spammers get taste of their own medicine
>http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cd592a7a-433e-11d9-bea1-00000e2511c8.html