Sloe Times

So I'm cruising through my Bloglines this morning and notice some updates on HDouble's site to some older posts. In scrolling through, some miserable f-tard has posted spam in his comments. *sigh* What is this world coming to.

I've got a friend who owns a small ISP. Some Canadian jackass created this 'product' called "Bulk Mail for Dummies" and aside from the usual list of big ISP (AOL, Earthlink, etc) email addresses, he also generated a list of a few million addresses to my friends ISP. Now I say generated with complete confidence because as the systems person for this ISP I recall the customer base being around 5000 individuals, max. So fast forward to the present and a number of people have purchased the BM4D product and have happily started spamming away at his ISP with all this undeliverable crap. The sad thing is that spammers don't care that what they're doing is harmful and generating no results, and is decidedly against the law. They are however, not completely stupid because they use re-mailers, hijacked computers, and vulnerable mail servers to hide behind. The point of this is that this activity, compounded by other events is slowly driving my friend out of business.

I'm all for personal freedom and crap like that, but if this kind of activity keeps up, I would be hard pressed to not be in favor of aggressively monitoring and hunting spammers down at the core router level. Then publicly stringing them up by their wrists and ankles until their dried bones rattled in the wind.