Help Fight Spam Aggressively
Taken from Developer Shed Weekly News for 2005-08-16
Blue Security claims their aggressive new model for fighting spam is very effective. Recently, they posted a report that spammers have been shutting down their domain names in response to the Blue Frog community.
How does it work? Basically, you register your email accounts on their Do-Not-Intrude list, and install a little program. Spammers who send illegal spam to list members are kindly asked to stop spamming. If they don’t stop, all the members who are online contribute (automatically via the program they installed) to sending massive amounts of complaints to the spammer’s site. This can slow down orders on the site and make it unprofitable. The service is surrounded by a lot of ethical and legal questions, especially since it can be similar to a DDoS attack if complaints are send at a rapid rate.
Interested in helping? Sign up.
