Counterspam

[lutzj]

I've been thinking about how evil spammers are and how nice it would be for them to get a taste of their own medicine. What if your email service gave you the option to "Reply to Spam"? It would go through the usual process of deleting the email and stopping further emails, but it would also send a large email full of random numbers back to the sender, rendering spam unfeasible.

 

[Cutlass]

Spammers disguise who they are or use a non replyable address. So I don't think it would work.

 

[Shadylookin]

spam mail is typically automated so it's not like the spammer is going to care. They probably don't use their personal email address(most likely one that you cannot reply too). So you'd just waste bandwidth and be in trouble for committing a DOS attack

Worst case scenario is that a spammer is using a computer that's infected so you'd just be spamming some poor shmuck who doesn't know any better.

 

[lutzj]

Spammers disguise who they are or use a non replyable address. So I don't think it would work.

Then we make non replyable addresses illegal

 

[Zelig]

Then we make non replyable addresses illegal

Spam is illegal in the first place...

 

[Genocidicbunny]

There is also the problem that by replying, you let them know your email is alive, and that there is a person behind it. You'd simply be helping them.

 

[Maniacal]

Noreply addresses have their use, such as confirmation e-mails for when you sign up to a forum and other administrative or news letters that you don't need to reply to.

 

[taper]

Make Love not Spam. Lycos tried this a few years ago, lasted about a month. Our best defense against spam is to make sure everyone we know runs some sort of antivirus and installs all OS updates.

 

[Jerrymander]

But what if you do want to make that 'special part of the male body' larger?

 

[lutzj]

But what if you do want to make that 'special part of the male body' larger?

Hire a plastic surgeon.

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[Maniacal]

But what if you do want to make that 'special part of the male body' larger?

Cosmetic sugery is the only non-erectinoal way.

Besides spam mail is just junk and mostly scams anyways. I never get any and if I do start getting some I'm making a new e-mail account.

 

[Ankka]

http://english-83218353892.spampoison.com/