[Fzob]

flaying spammers alive and dousing them with lemon juice

I call that letting them off easy. No death is painful enough for spammers. I despise them.

[PaulJ]

Christopher Caldwell had an interesting piece on spam in last week's Weekly Standard. One of his solutions is that e-mail would cost 1 cent per e-mail with the first 5,000 per year being free. This means that e-mails would still be free for most people, but spammers, who send out milllions of e-mails per day, would find the costs prohibitive thus putting them out of business.
It's not a bad idea.

[strela]

"Man in the wilderness" is a computer security consultant, which means he knows a lot about hacking.

A fine gentleman. I've corresponded with him, and he hates spam even more than I do (if that is possible). What he did to spammer/scammer Rodona Garst should be chronicled at the Smithsonian.

[backhoe]

Here's how to put a dent in this garbage, sometimes it stops it all together... first get this:

MailWasher
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...you can use it to delete emails on the server so it never gets to yout PC. It will also blacklist and bounce email, and it's is easier to use and read than Outlook Express's.

It also has a "view full header"-- using that, copy the header info ( you want the quadrette numbers of every server the email has passed through in the chain of servers- sometimes one, sometimes many) over to a new email... then copy the quadrett numbers one at a time to the lookup here:

-http://www.all-nettools.com/tools1.htm--

Find the webmaster emails there, copy them to the new email with a subject line like "Spam header info follows" and fire it off.

You will see a lot less after doing this a few times.

Allnettools is also useful for tracing malicious emails and viruses.

[JPJones]

Here's how I fight it: http://BlockSpamNow.com/r/7419

This program deletes the spam every minute.

[Bubba_Leroy]

"He not only found the spammer, he hacked into her PC. He got a screenshot of her forging his domain. And he went through it with a fine-tooth comb digging out all sorts of personal information, secrets and details of scams. He discovered that the spammer had accomplices so he did the same to them.

He then anonymously turned over all the information to the authorities and posted it on his site.

He even found a topless picture of the main spammer that she had stored on her hard drive. It's online too. "

Bless you.

[martin_fierro]

He even found a topless picture of the main spammer that she had stored on her hard drive. It's online too.

One should NEVER, EVER,

EVER

violate a spammer's (her name is Rodona) privacy by posting such information online.