Re: Fighting a spam fire with a DDoS

James Sissel wrote:

But you aren't hitting the computers sending the spam. This is not a way to prevent you from getting spam. What you are hitting are the servers the spam wants you to visit to buy the latest male organ growth creme or whatever. If we shut them down then the spammers won't have a product to spam us with. We are attacking the ultimate source of the spam, not the spam itself.

Couldn't this be used as a cheap way to DDoS someone? E.g. if I were upset with the incompetent inventory control at my local hardware store, could I send out a pile of spam linking to www.mylocalhardwarestore.com and watch as their web site slows to a crawl?