it's not an attack, it's a response to the spam offer. It doesn't abuse the
network or the computers, it abuses the spammers sales system and manpower.
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Leaving entirely aside the legality or morality of doing so...
- How do you limit damage to only the spam originator, when their
facilities may (and usually are) shared with non-spammers?
It probably won't be a matter of where the provider is knowingly
providing service and causing more general problems for them might be
appropriate (to some). The abuse could even injure entirely innocent
upstreams up to and including transit providers.
- What if the spammer has moved. How do you know? What do you attack?
- What if the spammer is smart and makes it look like it came from you?
- What if the source is a spambot behind a NAT? What do you attack?
Now, after you've read all the above, go read about BlueFrog and what
happened to it.
It's never appropriate to fight abuse with abuse.
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