I get an enormous amount of spam posted to this weblog, which I promptly delete using MT Blacklist. Anyway, a while ago I got fed up and used "whois" to figure out the owner of one of the domains that keeps spamming me. I wrote this guy a flaming email using one of my many old, unused email addresses, scutfarcus at Yahoo.

Within a day, I was recieving twice the amount of spam, and it was coming from my old address. Not only that, but it seems my address has become the new favorite for this spammer and innumerable strangers are now getting spammed from what appears to be my address. Sorry folks, it's not me.

There are very few things for which I would advocate physical violence, but these spammers need to be beaten severely.