At 04:21 AM 3/20/01 +1100, Roman Black wrote:
>What about if everybody emails the offending firm
>a "go spam yourself" letter with a LARGE attachment.
>Say a nice fat 200kb gif of something spam related,
>would take a couple of minutes for each person to
>send, but all those Mb coming in would really
>mess up the offending firm's email at their end,
>possibly causing extra charges or banning etc.

Nope - not a good idea.  If you do that, you have now become part of the
problem.

Use Spamcop or one of the other spam-whacker services out there and get the
perps tossed off the internet.

dwayne



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