"Bill Velek" <billvelek--NO-SPAM--@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:sAgdd.1005$sR2.596@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> susiegibson wrote:
>
> > I shall have to have my youngest daughter check this out- she is a
paper
> > folder for sure- thanks for the link- smiles, susie
>
> Do you really think the person who posted this SPAM is going to see your
> reply ... or really care? It is nothing more than an advertisement and
> it is cross-posted to 5 different groups -- one of which is for brewing
> beer and the poster has, to my knowledge, never posted anything there
> except his oragami spam. And he has posted the same crap on a lot of
> other groups that don't have anything to do with oragami. Usenet would
> become absolutely worthless if everyone with a business were to post
> advertisements. If people want to find products and services, it is
> easier now than ever before with the Internet ... unless the user is a
> complete idiot.
>
> Anyway, you have thanked the SPAMMER and have thus encouraged SPAM, as
> is your right, but I have a different approach ... heh, heh. I'm so
> sick and tired of these folks that I'm starting to teach them a little
> lesson. Right now I have my system set up to download every single page
> in that oragami site once every minute from now on, 24 hours a day, 7
> days a week until I stop. The combined downloaded pages are 2.4
> megabytes, so that is 144 meg/hr, or over 3.4 gigs per day, and over a
> hundred gigs in a month. Unless he owns his own server, he is going to
> go way over the maximum limit of most hosting services, and then it is
> going to start costing him money, if the hosting service doesn't decide
> to discontinue the site. Then if he moves to a different host, same
> thing happens again. Maybe he'll need to just get a whole new
> domain-name. And the real beauty is that it's all automatic and my
> system doesn't even slow down a heartbeat.
>
> Anyone spamming rec.crafts.brewing is risking the same retaliation.
> They can take me to court if they don't like it.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Bill Velek
>
Problem solved
Death to spammers!!!
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