[clug] spam attacker

[Tomasz Ciolek]

I concur with Peter... 

Vigilanties are not good news, especially as they themselves sometimes breach
laws... Not to mention they make sectors of the anti-spam community
look like a bunch of vindictive loonies...

TMC


On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 08:15:54AM +1000, Peter Barker wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Luke Worth wrote:
> 
> > http://www003.portalis.it/115/ladvampire.html
> > How many people know about this? seems like a good idea to me.
> 
> Argh! Vigilantes!
> 
> I'm not in favour. Let's see:
>  - typically you only pay for traffic you receive, not send, so while it
> might be chewing up their bandwidth, they're not paying for it (much)
>  - this is only a handful of spammers; drop in the ocean
>  - this unnecessarily chews up internet bandwidth
>  - people getting a nice warm fuzzy feeling for "helping to fight spam" in
> a destructive manner when they should be trying to get nice warm fuzzy
> feelings doing something constructive :)
>  - most people hate spammers. A LOT of people hate the opposite extremes
> of politics; do we start to condone this sort of attack against political
> parties we don't agree with? (extend to other contentious issues...)
> 
> > Luke
> 
> Yours,
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> Thu Jan  8 12:27:35 2004  	nigelw - Comments added
> [pbarker - Wed Jan  7 18:23:13 2004]:
> > You are in a maze of twisty semantics. You have: a hammer.
> You miss the semantic. \The semantic hits you. \You are permenantly confused.
> 
> 
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