[Gllug] Handling a new twist by spammers

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:42:47AM +0000, John Winters wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 11:22, Jason Clifford wrote:
> [snip]
> > It's not new and it's not a (deliberate) DoS.
> > 
> > ISPs have been seeing this for a long time.
> 
> Thank you.  I do feel a mechanism is needed whereby the future ability
> to breed of these bozos would be significantly impaired.

Did you see:
	http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm
some guys off /. got hold of a spammer's snail mail (postal) address. They then
subscribed him to every free catalogue, ... that was going. He is inundated
in paper and threatening to sue ...
I doubt that it will stop him, but it does have a certain satisfaction to it.

-- 
Alain Williams

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