Turn the spammers upon themselves

[R]

One of my non-RR email accounts is getting bombarded with spam offers of
mortgages, refinancing, etc. It is being filtered into the junk bin, but 50
spam emails a day just ticks me off. I just had this epiphany ... what if
the spammers were sent each others email addresses. Could that eventually
set up a spam flood between them that would make their servers melt down?
You know, like the ploy Kirk used in the Star Trek episode, 'The
Changeling'. Kirk confused the altered Nomad probe to the point that it went
up in smoke.

It was just a thought,
-Ron

[Kenyon Ralph]

Post by R
One of my non-RR email accounts is getting bombarded with spam offers of
mortgages, refinancing, etc. It is being filtered into the junk bin, but
50 spam emails a day just ticks me off. I just had this epiphany ... what
if the spammers were sent each others email addresses. Could that
eventually set up a spam flood between them that would make their servers
melt down? You know, like the ploy Kirk used in the Star Trek episode,
'The Changeling'. Kirk confused the altered Nomad probe to the point that
it went up in smoke.

I think one problem with this theory is that the spammers don't have a
single server, they hijack open proxies and other unprotected machines
around the Internet to send their garbage. It's like a massive distributed
spamming network, hence the neverending battle.

[stevech]

I thought spammers lived to have you go to their web site du jour and give
them some information - rather than sending an email.

Post by R
One of my non-RR email accounts is getting bombarded with spam offers of
mortgages, refinancing, etc. It is being filtered into the junk bin, but 50
spam emails a day just ticks me off. I just had this epiphany ... what if
the spammers were sent each others email addresses. Could that eventually
set up a spam flood between them that would make their servers melt down?
You know, like the ploy Kirk used in the Star Trek episode, 'The
Changeling'. Kirk confused the altered Nomad probe to the point that it went
up in smoke.
It was just a thought,
-Ron

[Darren New]

Post by R
It was just a thought,

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