spamassassin helps lots, but I'm tired of sorting the backscatter ; -)

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Person, Roderick" <personrp at UPMC.EDU> writes:
> Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> writes:
> > Anybody got a good way to send an automagic Ping'o'death to a
> > spammer's computer?
> I recall years ago into looking into this and was told it was illegal
> to do such a thing in response to a spammer, but it was ok for them to
> spam me. That never made sense to me, but I stop trying to figure it
> out.

It *is* illegal, and for good cause.  It's called vigilantism.

As for the legality of spam - almost all spam these days is either
fraud, advertising for illegal and / or fake medication, or both, and
almost all of it is sent from hijacked computers.  That makes spam
doubly illegal: 1) illegal intrusion into a computer system for the
purpose of committing 2) wire fraud and / or trading in illegal
substances.

IANAL, though, and I don't even play one on TV.

DES
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