I have an alternate idea...involving the data this Lycos project uses...
A Blacklist Proxy.
Here's how it works. A spammer sends SPAM out from an IP, it gets blacklisted, as well as the IP of the server which is hosting any websites advertised in the SPAM. This Blacklist Proxy is integrated into Internet Providers, businesses, etc... So to that end, the end user does not get the spam, and cannot visit the site of the spammer. Now what about websites which may be hosted on the same IP address? You can't get to them either. Which in turn forces them to either switch providers, thus punishing the provider monetarily for hosting a spammer; or forces the web host to eliminate all spammer sites from its servers; and so on and so forth. Sure, some legitimate sites may feel a pinch as a result, but it wouldn't be anything that could not be quickly remedied.
Heck, take that Lycos screensaver, and instead of running a DDoS, use the data it provides as a proxy which protects the user from getting the spam, and will not let the user go to servers which host spammers.
Call it "Electronic Sanctions" that actually work. If it was done at an ISP level, or even a root-server level...poor little spammers!
Sam
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