Stardate 200310140149, Captain's log Science officer Spock has just determined that our present rate of attack from the spammers will render our ship useless within days. We've found a possible deffence .... turning the spammers against themselves... -------
Kirk: Has any one implamented a script which generates a generic reply of interest based on addresses harvested from a dynamically filtered set of spam messages? If so I'd be delighted to know more. Spock: Perhaps it is a neive assumption about humans captain, but spammers do want to have replies (like the one in tenthousand people who want to help some Nigerian out of his financial predicament). Kirk: we're swimming in *#$@ here Spock! we need answers! Spock: If one were to reply _as_ another email address,..like a reply-to on a piece of spam it could really make a spammer work for those returns. The more spam you get the better it works. The more spam everyone gets (who is using the script that is)... the better it works. Kirk: So the bigger the set of spam addresses, the better the returns? If your spam folder is 50 deep, each of those 50 would appear to mail each other (but not it self). what would that do to the evil spammers who are attacking us? Spock: If 200 people each got 50 peices of spam within an arbitrary time-frame and were the script Mr. Scott is working on -which uses the reply-to field in each- to reply to all but itself (50!-48!), each spammer would recieve (50!-48!)*200 = 9800 messages of interest. Kirk: It's like an anti-spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spock: yes indeed captain. I believe humans have a term called poetic justice for this sort of thing. ---------------- ...demonic (scotch addled) laugh... On a side note, what started this thinking is ...it would be kind of fun to have it seem like people wanting a bigger member looking to help Nigerians with financial predicaments who in turn are looking for better deals on ... you get the idea. http://theregister.co.uk/content/archive/28525.html http://theregister.co.uk/content/archive/23629.html damn! ... I wish I knew Perl. Marcel -- Marcel Lecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
