Explaining spam to policians (was: test message)

[Rudi van Houten <]

At 13:07 +0100 14/11/01, Piet Beertema wrote:
> > I finally explained to him that the sheer volume of spam doesn't just
> > mean that costs of dealing with it have to be passed on, but that his
> > own Hotmail mailbox has a finite capacity beyond which correspondence
> > from his colleagues, family and friends would start bouncing due to the
> > mailbox already being full of spam. But when I sent him the email telling
> > him that, the email came bouncing back because...
> >
> >   Host 'mc3.law13.hotmail.com' says:
> >   552 Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage allocation
> Great! I'd love to send this fellow a copy of every single spam
> message I get, if necessary "rewritten" to "unspam" it. I'm sure
> that in no time he'd find out that serious mail doesn't reach him
> at all anymore...
This was called mailbombing some years ago. It worked great 
sometimes, eg Canter & Siegel. But that tactic is frowned upon. 
Perhaps it is now time to reconsider?
That will hit the Net, but spam does that too.

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