The Email Wars

Looks like attacks against spammers are getting personal. The story below shows some vigilante tactics that might work, but are they really worth the risk? What we need to do is work to kill off these rogue mail servers out there. I can’t tell you how many of the same crappy junk emails I get a day, but I deal with them by doing this (Remember this action) - Control + A then Delete. And voila it is gone.

In the Fight Against Spam E-Mail, Goliath Wins Again

Eran Reshef had an idea in the battle against spam e-mail that seemed to be working: he fought spam with spam. Today, he’ll give up the fight.

Reshef’s Silicon Valley company, Blue Security Inc., simply asked the spammers to stop sending junk e-mail to his clients. But because those sort of requests tend to be ignored, Blue Security took them to a new level: it bombarded the spammers with requests from all 522,000 of its customers at the same time.

That led to a flood of Internet traffic so heavy that it disrupted the spammers’ ability to send e-mails to other victims — a crippling effect that caused a handful of known spammers to comply with the requests.

Read the Full Story on the Washinton Post site