spamming the spamers...

  • Thread starter Thread starter Rob R. Ainscough
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Rob R. Ainscough

I'm working on some software similar to the "make love not spam" screen
saver that was launched by Lycos back in Dec '04 that successfully crippled
spam servers where it counts -- bandwidth.

My question, I'm trying to put together a fairly comprehensive database of
known spam servers as a starting point, does anyone have a link to such
data? Also, I originally started writing this as a stand alone .NET
framework v1.1 exe and am thinking of moving it to a Windows Service using
..NET v2.0 and VS 2005 -- any issues I need to be aware of in the migration
of code from VS2003 to VS2005? I've coded Windows Services before so that
is not a issue for me.

I'm also working on a component that will analyze and detect potential spam
sources from the E-Mails I receive and will launch a crippling response
(notice I did not use the work ATTACK) to the source spam server.

I'm also working on some software to cripple drone SQL Attackers (cripple,
not totally disable) that I might incorporate into the same application. I
may even try to provide the software for a tiny fee in the future if people
get value from it, but most likely I'll just let it be free since it is for
a good cause and my government seems unable to comprehend the issues let
alone do anything "meaningful" about it.

I do have lawyers on standby just in case -- I guess I'll know if my tool is
successful when I have to start using my lawyers.

Rob.
 
Thank you, excellent list ROKSO!

Is the VS2003 to VS2005 migration pretty smooth?

Thanks again, Rob.
 
Rob said:
I'm also working on a component that will analyze and detect potential spam
sources from the E-Mails I receive and will launch a crippling response
(notice I did not use the work ATTACK) to the source spam server.
Click to expand...

You didn't use the word attack, but it's clear you mean attack. (a rose
by any other name...)

I'm curious as to what you're planning to do about it. Are you going to
DDOS them? which is illegal. Are you going to mail-bomb them (also
illegal afaik) even then how would you know who to bomb since the email
addresses in the spam are eiter fake or the one of an innocent
bystander. Spam is often send through open relays which can be on any pc
connected to the net and is infected with a virus.
 
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