in reply to Just Another Discussion of Spam

That would make a great attack vector for a DDoS. Send out mails with a faked From address, all pointing back to a single mail host. Then all the anti-spam gateways dutifully try to connect to the mail host at once.

Some of the "solutions" to spam are worse than the actual problem.

"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.