Re: Spamming (Good or Bad?)

[Vipul Ved Prakash <vipul@pobox.com>]

> 
> On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
> 
> > There are technological fixes which I would favor over attempts to ban
> > unwanted messages.
> 
> In the meantime, before these technological fixes are easily implemented,
> what is the proper way to handle unwanted commercial mail?
> 
> 1) delete immediately
> 
> 2) reply with 'Fuck off, morons!'
> 
> 3) as in 2) plus an attachment of some 1Mb file
> 
> 4) as in 3) plus a CC to the postmaster of the sending site
> 
> What if the spam says: 'Do only reply to this if you want
> further contact with us' etc?
> 
> Does anybody have good advice, including risks for retaliation
> from the vendors/postmasters for such 're-spam'?

Subscribe them to cypherpunks, lots of times (if that is possible) and don't tell em hot to get off :)

Alternatively have a moderated "spam.die.die" mailing list and subscribe the culprit too this list.
Generate lot of data (like Octal dumps of entire hard disks) and keep sending out mails to these guys
on regular basis.

- Vipul