Salon gets spammed, replies to some spam, finding out that
getting
in touch with the spammers is harder than one would think:
"With an unlimited dial-up account, they can send a few million messages for
$20. If they are selling a widget or Viagra, the odds are that they will
never deliver anything anyway -- all they want is a credit card or a check...
If they send out a million messages and only get one response, they've still
made their money back plus a bit of profit ... and if you look at a million
people, you'll always find one bone-dumb idiot to send off a credit card
number."