I have a great idea to rid the world of spam (for ppl with high speed connections only)
Spam gets marked as spam, just as it does now. If this is automatic, great, otherwise, go ahead and do it manually as you currently do. All spam then gets put into a mailbox.
Then, for each new item of spam, send every item of mail in the spam box to the spammer, along with the following message
Dear Spammer,
I wish to inform you that I am not interested in whatever product you are trying to sell me. However, please find the attached offer from another spammer, that you may be interested in.
Yours,
Anonymous
PS, sorry I didn?t use my real email address, but I feel that sending my real email address to a spammer is asking for more spam. If you?d prefer not to get any other offers from other spammers, then don?t email me any more spam. Not sure how you can achieve this since you do not know who I am, but I face the same dilemma dealing with spam!
If enough people with high speed connections start doing this, spammers will never be able to find the sale amoungst the spam they recieve, and so find themselves a more meaningful job in life.
Technically this is NOT spam, since contact was innitiated by the spammer, so I don't beileve this violates any email account usage, or anti-spam laws. Just to save on bandwidth, the spam box should have some limit, say 50-100 email messages.
Now since more and more spam actually has no return email address, but just has a url, a process could run making a large number of request from that url. To avoid any denial of service allogations, the program could be trying to do something useful, but just amazing inefficient, like look for an unsubscribe page, but be so buggy that everytime it find a new page it re-reads all known pages again. Or perhaps, re-walk the whole site as soon as it has finished, just in-case the site has been updated, looking for a comments, or suggestions form where the suggestion "please don't send spam" can be submitted. To be sure it is not a purely a denial of service, a phone number or address can be entered (rather than an email), so the spammer can contact you to get your email address and remove it from their list if they choose to.
It would annoy me if I received 50-100 items of spam from 1% of the million people I just spammed, or if I had a web site and was paying for bandwidth, and 1% of the people I just spammed started eating all my ISPs bandwidth for (valid) reasons that don't put money in my pocket, and my bill went through the roof. I might even stop spamming!
So what do you all think?
Spam gets marked as spam, just as it does now. If this is automatic, great, otherwise, go ahead and do it manually as you currently do. All spam then gets put into a mailbox.
Then, for each new item of spam, send every item of mail in the spam box to the spammer, along with the following message
Dear Spammer,
I wish to inform you that I am not interested in whatever product you are trying to sell me. However, please find the attached offer from another spammer, that you may be interested in.
Yours,
Anonymous
PS, sorry I didn?t use my real email address, but I feel that sending my real email address to a spammer is asking for more spam. If you?d prefer not to get any other offers from other spammers, then don?t email me any more spam. Not sure how you can achieve this since you do not know who I am, but I face the same dilemma dealing with spam!
If enough people with high speed connections start doing this, spammers will never be able to find the sale amoungst the spam they recieve, and so find themselves a more meaningful job in life.
Technically this is NOT spam, since contact was innitiated by the spammer, so I don't beileve this violates any email account usage, or anti-spam laws. Just to save on bandwidth, the spam box should have some limit, say 50-100 email messages.
Now since more and more spam actually has no return email address, but just has a url, a process could run making a large number of request from that url. To avoid any denial of service allogations, the program could be trying to do something useful, but just amazing inefficient, like look for an unsubscribe page, but be so buggy that everytime it find a new page it re-reads all known pages again. Or perhaps, re-walk the whole site as soon as it has finished, just in-case the site has been updated, looking for a comments, or suggestions form where the suggestion "please don't send spam" can be submitted. To be sure it is not a purely a denial of service, a phone number or address can be entered (rather than an email), so the spammer can contact you to get your email address and remove it from their list if they choose to.
It would annoy me if I received 50-100 items of spam from 1% of the million people I just spammed, or if I had a web site and was paying for bandwidth, and 1% of the people I just spammed started eating all my ISPs bandwidth for (valid) reasons that don't put money in my pocket, and my bill went through the roof. I might even stop spamming!
So what do you all think?