[aclug-L] Re: Reverse the Aging Process 10-20 Years!

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

More than annoying the spammers, you will annoy your ISP, and risk having
your account terminated.

I tried similar action a few years ago... 80% of spam comes from invalid
e-mail addresses (big surprise!), so sending them mail results in lots of
bounced mail, and clogged mail spools at your ISP (or whichever mail server
you use).


On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:31:45AM -0600, james l wrote:
> I am thinking about sending the following message to the next spam I get, and
> then following the policy, comments?
> 
> James L
> 
> I recieved spam from you. If I recieve another, I will take actions which
> will be very annoying to you, and perfectly legal. One item I am thinking of
> doing to spammers is creating a half megabyte file with the word REMOVE in
> the body. If you have a slow connection, this will lead to an excruciatingly
> long time to download (1.2 minutes at optimum 56K conditions, and given that
> most connections are much slower say 3-10K per second, it would take 6-22
> minutes), and may also cause you to lose mail if you have mail quotas. This
> is your only warning, repeated offences will lead to sending 2^(N-1) 500KB
> messages. I asume no responsibility for any disruption to your mail, and any
> trouble it causes you, as you have caused disruption of my mail, and troubled
> me. 
> Sincerly, James Lancaster 
> If you are recieving this message in error, simply make sure you don't send
> me spam (and I read the source of mails, so don't try to hide behind another
> e-mail account.)
> 
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