Re:fight fire with fire? (Score 1)

I am a fairly peace loving guy but give me a loaded machine gun and I will finish off spammers personally. They have rendered one account useless with over 1000 SPAM emails a week and all this without my using it or advertising it, so guess who is spreadding it. I have always considered that ways of protection are defensive rather than offensive and bound to fail as spammers improve their techniques. Hotmail has my vote where it blocks anybody who isn't on my address list which they kindly offer to let me import instead of retyping everything. So far nobody has penetrated this defence.