Scotty: Aye Captain. This approach might cause some confusion among the spammers, but all those messages will eventually overload our system. I can't keep it running much longer Captain.
-----Original Message----- From: Nick W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) OT :: Scotch addled anti-Spam fantasies Bones: It'll never work, Jim. Most spam comes from spoofed, non-existent email addresses. They aren't looking to have people reply by email, they just want you to click the link to thier website and buy your viagra/penis/breast enlargement combo kit.... On October 4, 2003 03:00 am, Marcel Lecker wrote: > Stardate 200310140149, Captain's log > > Science officer Spock has just determined that our present rate of > attack from the spammers will render our ship useless within days. We've > found a possible deffence .... turning the spammers against > themselves... > ------- > > Kirk: Has any one implamented a script which generates a generic reply > of interest based on addresses harvested from a dynamically filtered set > of spam messages? If so I'd be delighted to know more. > > Spock: Perhaps it is a neive assumption about humans captain, but > spammers do want to have replies (like the one in tenthousand people who > want to help some Nigerian out of his financial predicament). > > Kirk: we're swimming in *#$@ here Spock! we need answers! > > Spock: If one were to reply _as_ another email address,..like a reply-to > on a piece of spam it could really make a spammer work for those > returns. The more spam you get the better it works. The more spam > everyone gets (who is using the script that is)... the better it works. > > Kirk: So the bigger the set of spam addresses, the better the returns? > If your spam folder is 50 deep, each of those 50 would appear to mail > each other (but not it self). what would that do to the evil spammers > who are attacking us? > > Spock: If 200 people each got 50 peices of spam within an arbitrary > time-frame and were the script Mr. Scott is working on -which uses the > reply-to field in each- to reply to all but itself (50!-48!), each > spammer would recieve (50!-48!)*200 = 9800 messages of interest. > > Kirk: It's like an anti-spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Spock: yes indeed captain. I believe humans have a term called poetic > justice for this sort of thing. > > ---------------- > > ...demonic (scotch addled) laugh... > > On a side note, what started this thinking is ...it would be kind of fun > to have it seem like people wanting a bigger member looking to help > Nigerians with financial predicaments who in turn are looking for better > deals on ... you get the idea. > > http://theregister.co.uk/content/archive/28525.html > http://theregister.co.uk/content/archive/23629.html > > > damn! ... I wish I knew Perl. > > Marcel -- Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221
