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to: Geo
from: Mike N.
date: 2006-11-12 07:48:10
subject: Re: Attack the spammers

From: Mike N. 

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:45:57 -0500, "Geo"  wrote:

> What I had suggested was that we tell people that instead of
>ignoring spam they should place orders for whatever was being sold and use
>fake information for the orders in an attempt to make it too expensive to
>sort the crap from the real orders

   In real life, telling the general population to go to web sites run by
spammers is asking for more exploits.  Who knows what patch level they are
at.   And even then, there's always the 'You need the free Viagra ordering
tool to securely place your order - click here" trick.

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