Nizzt's Journal: Stop spam, with spam. Make email useless.

Spammers make about 5 times more then most systems administrators is the spammers work only a few days a month.

Spammers charge a flat rate for units of messages sent.

Maybe we should start spamming, charge lower and lower rates until its no longer profitable to spam.

Why pay for something when someone will do it for free.

I would like spamming to increase, so that we have not 50% spam, instead maybe 99% spam (or even 99.999%). Eventualy when email is no longer useable people will start fighting it.

Minor annoyances don't get fixed as fast as major annoyances.

We should get a GPL'd spam software and spam it out to the spammers.

Set prices as $1.00 for a million addresses, continue to drop the price until its $0.02 per million.

For extra effect we should send 100 copys to every address.

Now we could start to play dirty... Start writing worms to distribute the spam.

If we could fill everyones email boxes up every day for a few months, we just might be able to stop spam.

Just a bit of... fight fire with fire idea... I might be wrong.

So, that last virus/worm helped cause the black out by causing conectivity problems on the internet. If spam is increased, the percentage of bandwidth for spam goes up, less other data is sent. If the internet because useless because of spam, what would people do?

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I didn't think this out too much, and didn't go back and edit anything... But I think the idea is interesting.

50% spam?!

[eglamkowski]

For over a week now, my primary email account is getting nailed with the microsoft security patch update spam (no, it's not really a MS patch, it's not even from MS, it's just some jerk hoping you'll run an .exe that will do who knows what to your machine). I get about 5-10 of them per minute. Literally. I've had to give up on that account completely for getting any real mail.

Which is a shame, cause I had that account for maybe 8 years or so. Pisses me off to no end, but now my email there is 99.99999%

Re:50% spam?!

[Nizzt]

This is swen virus/worm, not some jerk. Its someone who was infected with a virus. This means someone who has your address in their address book is infected. And I bet doesn't have a clue about it.