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Re: Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Hi Doc, I have been reading your blog for a couple of months now. Today I was reading your comment on unsubscribing from spam. It made me remember an idea that came to me a couple of days ago and I wanted to see what you thought: What if, instead of religiously NOT responding to spam, everyone started to reply to spam? Is it possible that this would: a) Bring down the spammers servers? b) Bring down any servers clandestinely co-opted by spammers, thereby alerting the server owner of having been infiltrated c) Bury any legitimate (from the spammer's point of view) responses in a mountain of non-serious responses, thereby eliminating or greatly reducing the effectiveness of the spamming sales/marketing strategy as well as the value of any spam mail address lists? I realize that this would not affect anybody using spam as a virus or DOS tool. It also would expose everyone participating to be then identified as a "live" address, but if a large number of people did this what value would all those "live" addresses have? The key, obviously, would be to get everyone to adjust their behavior at roughly the same time. That's why I thought of you. If anybody could get a "ground-root" campaign underway, it could maybe be you and your network. What do you think? Daniel There are responses to this message:
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