terrible, nasty idea...

[Marek Kowal]

Hello,

What I do not like about the whole idea of spamming the spamer is the fact that once your systems get widespread, they can be used to create DDOS attacks on completely innocent people/websites. Say, I do not like some website. I just put his/her URL in the spam message and send it to the sufficient amount of people who implemented the "terrible, nasty idea" of yours.

And that's all I have to do! Beautiful example of non-symmetric attack. I just send few emails, and you do all the dirty work for me.

Please, do not follow in this direction. This trick resembles me the other one: still thousands of SMTP gateways send back the email saying that your message contained the virus and thus it has been destroyed and please, fix your computer blah blah blah. Of course usually the envelope sender is choosen randomly by the virus and it has nothing to do with the infected computer. And these days it has became possible to DDOS somebodys mailbox - just prepare message with known wirus inside, put your enemy's email in the envelope sender field and send it around the world. I do know several people who have been subjected to such an attack.

The same's bound to happen with the trick you propose. Probably some spammer will do that to force you to turn off the engine you are just creating.

Over,
.m