Fighting a spam fire with a DDoS

[James Sissel]

But you aren't hitting the computers sending the spam.  This is not a way to 
prevent you from getting spam.  What you are hitting are the servers the 
spam wants you to visit to buy the latest male organ growth creme or 
whatever.  If we shut them down then the spammers won't have a product to 
spam us with.  We are attacking the ultimate source of the spam, not the 
spam itself.
>
>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.
>
> > 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