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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (7390)	2/20/2005 1:42:47 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12465

<The only way you stop spam is sue the spammers like Microsoft is doing.> I've wondered what would happen if a bunch (a whole bunch) of people responded to every spam message they receive as if they are interested but really only doing it to waste the time of the slammers. A lot of spammers are paid by how many people they can entice to click on links they embed in their spams. If a spammer was being paid 50 cents by some phony loan outfit for every click through they got it wouldn't take long for the fraudsters loan outfit to decide a million responces are too many to sort through or pay for. Of course they would come up with some other way to pay like only paying the spammers when someone falls for the scam but there would be ways of making them stop this too. If people would just string the scammers along with no intention of buying (using a yahoo or hotmail account instead of your real one of course) I think some kinds of spam could be reduced by a large percentage.