Spambayes modifications with web services

[Neil Hodgson]

benmorganpowell:

> So, as a web programmer and someone who specialises in getting good
> results on Google, I realised that I could simply post every spammer
> website on a Google optimized page, which if searched for on Google
> would return something like:
> 
> "WARNING: DO NOT BUY FROM THIS WEBSITE. THE SPAMMER IS A RUSSIAN MAFIA
> CROOK WHO WILL STEAL YOUR MONEY."

    Spam may also contain the addresses of non-spamming businesses, 
sometimes in an effort to increase the apparent legitimacy of the spam. 
Attacking all of the web sites in spam will cost these businesses while 
having little effect on spammers who use temporary domains which may be 
cheaply abandoned. It also gives another attack vector for those 
criminals that attempt to extort money from web sites by threatening to 
damage them.

    If you want to take action against spammers, first think through all 
the potential consequences of your actions.

    Neil