[SpamCop-List] Re: make love not spam - I prefer another method

[brewman]

"N. Miller" <tdy at blackhole.invalid> wrote in message 
news:MPG.1c1a6c74a81c70f98977d at news.spamcop.net...
> Spamvertised sites come and go. Some spammers burn through domains 
> like a
> kid burns through his Halloween candy. Lycos hasn't done squat to 
> stop the
> spammers because they change domains more often than Imelda Marcos 
> changed
> shoes.

Well, after months of reporting spam and not making a dent in the spam 
I received (several dozen a day), I got myself an uncapped ADSL line 
(2 actually, but that's another story) and started using SpamVampire 
on the spamvertised site, passing through to the REAL site and 
ignoring any zombies; I think it unfair to attack a zombied machine 
whose bandwidth the spammer isn't paying for anyway.

I either prefix their domain name or appending the image url with 
(almost) DoNotSpam.brycom.cX.nX. I also add bits like "If you leave me 
alone then I leave you alone". I also rummage around the site looking 
for large images (no, not using IE!) that SpamVampire likes.

Within a month my spam had reduced to a trickle (most days nothing 
arrives). I don't mean spam passing the filters, I mean *NO SPAM* to 
my domain for days on end. It's worked so well that I've started 
applying it to my email addresses not at my domain. Within a few 
days - spam stops!

I started off sucking between 100MB & 500 MB a site (lots of sites 
initially). Now I get so few spam that I usually suck at least 1GB a 
site. The more spam someone sends, the more I suck. Usually I choose 
to stop sucking before they stop me; it only takes a few hours to suck 
1GB, even using a PII Win98 machine (yes, it's all firewalled).

Would I use the Make Love Not War method? No; it's too impersonal. I 
want to be in control.

I finally feel as if I'm getting somewhere - no, got somewhere - in my 
personal battle against spam. Is SpamVampire abuse? I know that that's 
been debated, and I don't intend to open it again now, but I just want 
to say that using it worked for me.

-- 
Brewman
Brewman.SpamCop at brycom.cX.nX which really ends with dot co dot nz