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by lurker
[sarcasm]hunt them down and murder them in their sleep. torture them until they beg for death. [/sarcasm]
i don't know. there are people here far more qualified to answer that than i. i do think it might be useful to sort them by type, because the bots can be screened out at the door, at least until their AI improves. anything else requires a person at the switch, which costs someone something, time and/or money. i notice this last new assignment/plagarism guy claimed to be an australian marketing director, which would be refreshing in its candor. maybe a polite e-mail asking him to desist?
ultimately, there seems to be no penalty, no cost associated with spamming. someone pays someone else to spam, maybe 1 of 1000 actually generates some revenue, and apparently that's enough, win-win for the spammers, lose-lose for the rest of us. interesting problem.
i'm retired. what's your excuse?