An interesting idea... I was thinking about something like that myself.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter L. Peres
> Sent: 2004 Jun 10, Thu 23:27
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN:] Is my email being posted somwhere?
>
> >I get those fake Failed Messages things all the time, though I NEVER
> >open attachments under any circumstances unless I've talked to the
> >sender and am expecting an attachment.
>
> Do not take them lightly, they can get you blacklisted by
> misconfigured blacklists and graylists. Then your legitimate
> mail will start to bounce.
> Guess how I know this ?
>
> >I think that a large group of people should get together and
> pool their
> >bandwidth and shut down these spammers/worm spreaders one by
> one just
> >like they do to companies and whatnot (ie. DOS attacks).
> There must be
> >some offensive means by which people can pay back the spammers.
>
> I think there is a misspelling in 'shut' above. The way to
> stop spam is to bury the SMTP protocol, with due honors,
> somewhere deep and dark and come up with something that
> cannot be faked so easily in the header sector at least. The
> idea that anyone can write whatever one wants in the headers
> of an email he/she sends is a license to fraud, and is used
> as such copiously by spammers, viruses etc. No legitimate
> email user would ever fake the envelope, assuming he wants an
> answer. At most he'd leave it blank.
>
> Peter
>
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