Re: Man gets nine years for spamming

On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 13:19:32 +0100, Pooh Bear wrote:

> martin griffith wrote:
>
>> At last
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4426949.stm
>
> Yeah but he's appealed.
>
> I have no doubt however that the *only* way to get rid of spam is to
> introduce a *mandatory* sentence of not less than 5 yrs.
>
> That'll stop the Bast**ds.
>

No, it won't. It's just like the war on drugs or any other war based
on making people behave the way you want to by inflicting violence on
them.

The way to solve the spam problem is to quit buying crap from the
spammers.

Then, somebody needs to start competing with K-Mart in personal-computer
land, and sell a preinstalled, preconfigured Linux. No, wait - that's
virus immunity. You still need a spam filter.

So somebody should publish a "list of known spammers" and some blocker
software - in Linux it's trivial - just put a "DROP" entry in your
iptables for that IP. If there are other people who would then want
to use that IP number after the spammer goes out of business, tough
toenails.
THESE IP NUMBERS HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY THE SPAMMERS, AND SO ARE TAINTED!
REJECT ALL INCOMING CONNECTIONS FROM THESE IPs UNTIL THEY ARE REAUTHORIZED
AT MY WHIM!

In fact, I have a pretty good starting list:
warning: it's 142KBytes:
# wc LATEST_BLACKLIST
10099 10099 141998 LATEST_BLACKLIST

10,099 IPs that can't spam me. :-)
http://www.neodruid.net/LATEST_BLACKLIST

Cheers!
Rich

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