how to punish "net send" spammers.

Semikolon wrote: BoLt: we are not talking about email spammers, but windows message spammers

Same thing but with a different flavor Spam is Spam whether it is in letter format, Phone, E-mail or net send.

Sorry but I don’t believe in kill for a kill kind of thing nothing personal.

May be think about it this way. If you know how to spam in this way, You also know how to stop it.

Go to the START menu, Select Run and type in services.msc and click OK.

Now a new window will appear with lots of "services" on the right hand side...

Scroll down and find the Messenger service, select it, right click it and choose properties

Under Startup Type select Manual. (or Disabled)

Then click the Stop button.

Then click the Apply button.

Then click the OK button.

zMaestro wrote: sometimes, it is nice to be the bad guy in the game... or we are supposed to be always the victims.

It only takes one mistake and the good guys get punished instead.

When I was working for an ISP, we'd frequently get complaints that someone was bombing their email, messenger, or whatever. We'd shut the offender down, and put them on the webhost/isp blacklist.

Next day, we'd get a call from them explaining that they were just trying to get back at some spammer and didn't realize that the spammer was smarter than they were when it came to spoofing the source.

Didn't matter why they were spamming, the AUP for most ISP's says "you will not spam". It doesn't say "you will not spam except if someone spammed you first".

Thats to say that the means justifies the ends.

People should not spam full stop, it just creates problems for everyone involved. Email has been hit hard and its almost impossible to have a Hotmail account that is not loaded with spam email. Now we could be doing something on our computers and all of the sudden we are hit with spam net send messages ( I know you can Disable Them). Where does it stop?

People need to stop spamming 'all together'. Thats my 2cents