[ale]OT It begins...

[Chris Ricker]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Greg wrote:

> OpenBSD has spamd - a way to make the spamming machines groan resource-wise.
> I am certain that there are Linux variants on this and I would suggest using
> them with abandon/extreme prejudice.  If you find one that makes the
> machines catch fire and produce copious amounts of shrapnel upon the bodies
> of the spammers, then I will happily replace my OpenBSD firewall with
> Debian.

It's pointless. spammers don't usually spam from their own machines. You're
just hurting some relatively innocent, if clueless, web proxy operator, in
all likelihood.

However, if you insist on doing it, SpamCannibal 
<http://www.spamcannibal.org/> does the same thing for Linux

later,
chris