> freep this a**holes e-mail box.
I’ve often wondered if the answer to spam isn’t as simple as this:
1) assemble a folder of spam received, and a mailing list of the spam senders
2) once per week, send the entire folder to the entire mailing list, one message at a time.
3) keep filling the folder and building the mailing list, and repeat.
If as few as 100 people did this, it would be an annoyance to the ISPs. If 1000 people did this, it might have an impact on bandwidth. If 100,000 people did this, the government would notice and a few laws might be passed. And if 1,000,000 people did this, the software industry would be forced to re-write the slack e-mail standards that have prevailed since the 1970’s that permit SPAM to work.
*That* is the real problem: the standards are slack, and there is a whole industry that is dedicated to re-arranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic (anti-spam filters, anti-virus software, spam-bots, firewalls) rather than fixing the real problem: the Internet was never designed to be used by anybody other than benign academics and trusted military personnel and one-or-two corporate R&D types — and certainly never with commercial uses in mind.