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FFB? (Score:2, Interesting)
What do you think of Paul Graham's idea of Filters that Fight Back?
http://www.paulgraham.com/ffb.html
The basic idea is that by automatically crawling the links in spam a certain number of times (100-200), you would flood a spammers response rate with junk traffic and also ensure that bandwidth costs exceeded the financial rewards of spam.
I love the symmetry of responding to junk traffic with junk traffic.
OTOH, I know the problem of having spam include other people's URLs at the bottom would need to be addressed, but would maintaining black- and whitelists for people who should and shouldn't be crawled be a more straightforward endeavor that what exists today?
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Re:FFB? (Score:3, Interesting)
Two wrongs don't make a right.
As much as I hate spam, and think Ralsky deserves to be behind bars, it is not for me to attack his servers (even if done so in a distributed fashion).