[thelist] Evil acts. How to?

[Frank]

As part of my testing environment, I have a SMTP/POP server. I also 
sometimes have up to 20 idiots a day trying to use my server as an open 
relay to spam. Tracing these people always leads me back to China, or 
Korea, or Russia, or wherever. I'm tired of it.  I'm tired of my firewall 
grinding away. I'm tired of watching "connection refused" scroll away in my 
logs.  These people seem to think that "connection refused" means "hammer 
away as hard as my machine can". This is simply my personal development 
machine.

What evil acts can I commit upon these people until such time as they stop? 
What "hacker software (kiddy scripts?)" do I need to get to create a DOS? 
Or send the Ping Of Death (love the sound of that one!).  What are my 
choices in terms of evil acts to commit, and what do/get I need to do to 
commit them?

In short, ignoring, and communicating with these people is leading me 
nowhere, what actions can I take to make them take notice with the least 
amount of energy on my part? Feel free to contact me off list. *


<tip type="Server, Free Software" author="Frank Marion">

Want to run your own SMTP/POP server? Want to liberate yourself from an 
ISP? Try Mercury. <http://www.pmail.com/> You might also like the high 
quality email client known as Pegasus.

Mercury combined with a dyndns.com account <http://www.dyndns.org/> (This 
service gives you "a domain name" to go with your dynamic IP) makes for a 
great, nearly free internet account that lets you do all your testing 
without actually needing to bother other people's machines.

</tip>

*This is an actual honest to goodness request (on top of being a rant). 
Thanks for listening :)


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