"Revenge" methods won't work against spam. Spammers may be using "owned" machines belonging to a "botnet". The sysadmins of the infected servers may not even to know that their systems are serving to spammers. So attacking back the spam sources, besides ethical and legal reasons, may be futile and just cause problems to a legitimate company/service provider/etc. The way to fight the problem, IMHO, is to attack the real cause of spam, i.e., to make spam an expensive advertising medium. According to a recent IDG research, one out of ten Internet users buy products from spammers. Spam has a low cost and an high ROI (better than several advertising media). So money flows to the spammers' pockets. Regards, Marlon Borba, CISSP.

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On Mar 23, 2005, at 12:37 PM, RSK wrote:

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:24:37AM -0800, Andreas Ott wrote:

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http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/22/technology/ibm_spam/

If this write-up is accurate,

It's not. From the http://www.aunty-spam.com website: IBM Not Spamming Spammers! FairUCE is About Fair Use, Not Abuse! Did you hear? IBM is spamming spammers! It's all over the Internet, and tongues are a'wagging! Except, it ain't so. IBM is not spamming spammers. [...]