Fighting a spam fire with a DDoS

[Brian Densmore]

The fatal flaw in this logic is that, most spammers 
are using other peoples 0wn3d boxes and thus there is no
cost to them. Other than perhaps not sending as much mail.
So maybe they make a smaller profit, but when you have a
zero cost business and everything is 99.94% pure profit,
a smaller profit isn't a big deal. This probably won't work.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 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
> 
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