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If you know a valid email address on the spammers system you can always bounce each message back to them. If enough people turned the messages back on them it might give them the opportunity to experience first hand what its like to receive tons of mail you don't want or need...

Ah, but they never do. Why not? Because spammers _invariably_ forge the return addresses to keep exactly that from happening. Indeed, Cyber Promo claims it "had an understanding" with AOL that it could use AOL boxes or bogus adresses to keep bounced messages from coming back at them and crashing their server. Deliberatlely forging addresses, Cyber claims, is entirely legal. AOL says it's fraud. Interesting footnote: AOL, of course, is able to trace a lot of the spam it gets. It has sent back thousands of messages at once to Cyber which, in turn, has gotten it bumped from several ISPs once their servers crashed as a result. Tough business, huh? Will Rodger Washington Bureau Chief Inter@ctive Week -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMjSGvTqp6Cc7rRIJAQHCEQP/fZwhp/GTSwj9Emusgh9QFnAlafpOL2qI ces6RqwSoZfmbAmhREh836sakjS2d+mHdYK84FH7WdXWnuzMlDAPCls7OO8AU4t8 oMN7koLM3cpgwlavt/Lw8NJp3wC5OnRnrqNeunkBvNEBs8aaJ+C6isH/zrErgbt5 0QL9cYlEyq8= =EW/y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----