One way to deal with SPAMMERS!!!

[Todd Lee]

That is funny!  I actually take it one step farther in the lo-tech domain...

My plan to stop junk mail...I figure if enough people jump on, it might
actually help, if not I have fun doing it anyway!

Hold all of your junk mail until you have an even number of them.
Then remove all the contents that have any personal information on them.
Take the advertising from one company and put it into the reply envelope of
another company and mail!

The envelopes have prepaid postage, but the company only gets charged when
you mail them.  This way, the junk mail they send costs them twice the
amount without any return.

And hey, I'm sure the people who open the mail need a break from the usual
applications that they get!  They might enjoy looking at the new alarm
clocks that Sears has to offer...

Todd

PS.  I love this mailing list!  Still learning Linux, and this list has
helped me a lot!  If I could ask an intelligent question, I would!

Thanks Rodney!  I've learned tons from the questions you've asked

-Todd


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Dusty [mailto:dusty at sandust.com]
Sent:	Monday, November 19, 2001 9:25 AM
To:	Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
Subject:	[luau] One way to deal with SPAMMERS!!!

I think I need to set up a filter that automatically does this for my
domains!

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.farces.com/farces/999462920/index_h
tml

"Each day I select 2 or 3 of the more outrageous spam messages that serve no
useful purpose whatever. They're almost always some sort of commercial scam.
I do a traceroute and a whois with NeoTracePro (it's got neat maps) to
determine who they really are, where the message really originated, and who
their local and upstream bandwidth providers are. Then I send the following
reply to the original message-complete will all header information from the
original spam-with copies to the abuse, postmaster, and hostmaster addresses
at the bottom-feeder's local and upstream provider:"

"Remove this and all addresses within the farces.com domain from your
distribution lists immediately. We have no existing business relationship,
nor do I wish to establish one. I don't do business with spammers. Not now.
Not ever. You are using my resources for your gain without my permission or
compensation. Any further contact from your domain to any address within
this domain will indicate tacit agreement to your use of our resources at
our published billing rate of US$125 per hour with a 10 hour minimum."

Dusty

"Linux is for people who hate Windows. BSD is for
people that love unix."

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