On Monday 14 August 2006 09:18, Tim wrote: >jdow: >>>> Also lobby your Congress critters to establish an open hunting season >>>> for spammers. > >Tim: >>> For amusements sake I went searching for "spammer beaten up" on Google >>> long ago, and found a story about some guy who went through a >>> ten-minute punchup with some Irish (if I remember correctly) cops, and >>> tried to eat his USB thumbdrive, trying not to get arrested, at an >>> internet cafe where the owner dobbed in a dodgy client. Made my day, >>> it did. If only we could have watched it happen! ;-) > >Craig White: >> why not go all the way? >> >> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/spamking.html > >You can only kill a spammer once, but you can beat him up for the rest >of his life... ;-) Yes, but if he is killed, then that particular source of spam is removed from the gene pool. That, it would seem, is a desirable situation since there appears to be no other, works as well, solution to the problem. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.