spam the spammers (Score 1)

Most proposed solutions attack at the wrong place. Spamming is not financed and made profitable by the providers or the spammers. The only way to stop it is to attack the source of the money paying for all this crap. One of the of big players (Google, yahoo Aol, MSN) who can withstand attacks and have the servers necessary needs to step up and offer to set up a database of the people paying the bills. Then the Internet community has to use frontier justice in the absence of real law to attack and destroy the sites owned by the spammers' clients. A million email responses for every one they send us; a million phoney orders for their product; 7/24 downloads of whatever they have on their site; DB hacking; DoS attacks, and anything else that will bring them to thier knees until they stop financing spam. Of course modt of that is illegal, and like passive societies throughout history we will continue to be beatup on by thugs and those who pay them until Marshall Google or Sheriff Yahoo goes into action. This thread is typical of what we see all over the web; spineless whining. All this because most of us are law-abiding and we continue to support general priciples of law or lack of law that protects the criminal but will put us in jail if we try to take effetive action agaisnst them.