Scammers are fun, too

If only I had more time, this sport looks like fun. They string the scammers along for as long as they can using their own excellent bogus names and even go as far as to get the scammers to send pictures of themselves to prove they are real. There is a lesson here for anti-spammers.

If Bill Gates really wanted to fight spam like he says he does, 419 Eater shows the way. Take that $500 million he wants to spend on technology and pay 100,000 people $5k each to just respond to the spammers and waste their time, clog their mailboxes and bandwidth, and generally make a nuisance of themselves. In other words, fight fire with fire. In the short term, it would probably crash a lot of servers but I think spammer ISPs and people who use spammers for their advertising (Does anyone believe their claims that they don't knowingly employ spammers?) would get the message that there is no benefit to doing business with them.

I await the day CSS will come to me. I use it here but my understanding of it is next to non-existent.

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: “Judgment Day"

The real world is a bit sobering sometimes. -Rob