[alwayzright]

"Sometimes, when I get bombarded by multiple spams from a 'legitimate' source, I just look up the support contacts for the offending site and forward all of their spam back to them X 10. It usually results in an end to the spam."

That's pretty dangerous. It's impossible to tell if the address is the actual source address (it probably isn't), and there is no such thing as a 'legitimate' source. There's not a spammer alive that doesn't go through multiple relays. The law is fuzzy, but you could get in trouble doing this. I definitely would not risk it.

[Keith in Iowa]

>> It's impossible to tell if the address is the actual source address (it probably isn't) <<

That's not quite true - if you know how to read the heqaders, you can find out a lot about where an e-mail came from.

[templar]

I definitely would not risk it.

Probably the wiser course of action. I don't mind an occasional spam offering something legitimate that I am actually interested in (I bought my last life insurance policy from a 'spam' and saved a substantial amount over what I had been paying). I do get kinda frustrated when I get 15 spams a day from the same cmpany though, even if they are offering a legitimate product.

[Graybeard58]

That's pretty dangerous. It's impossible to tell if the address is the actual source address (it probably isn't), and there is no such thing as a 'legitimate' source. There's not a spammer alive that doesn't go through multiple relays. The law is fuzzy, but you could get in trouble doing this. I definitely would not risk it.

From personal experience I can say you are 100% right. I was getting spam from a modeling agency (How they knew I was that good looking, I don't know.) Anyway I wrote to them asking to be removed from their mailing list. After that they increased the volume. So I started sending multiple forwards to them of their own spam. (Hundreds)

I get a call from my provider threatening to cut off my DSL service. They said they got a complaint from the modeling agency that I was trying to deny them service.

I told them where to stuff their service and to discontinue it immediately. Then the guy started back tracking trying to get me to KEEP the service. It was Gallatin River Communications in Pekin, Illinois. They also provided my land line phone service and I told them to stuff that too.

We are a wireless family now with cable internet and my next step is to tell them to come and get those unsightly wires off my property.