What is this blog about?

Everyone knows what spam is. It's what the majority of email clogging the internet is composed of these days. It's why legitimate businesses like mine can't seem to get order tracking email through to our customers because it *looks* like spam to some spam blocking program. It's why many kids in elementary school with email accounts scratch their heads wondering what Viagra or Penis Pumps are.

It's got to be the most annoying waste of time I've encountered in the online world.

The bottom line is that there are people behind these incessant spam messages. No matter how well hidden, no matter how obfuscated, they are there, lurking in the darkness, waiting for a few people out of the millions they spam to buy something from them.

So here's the deal. I'm inviting those technically skilled of you with the yearning to do a little to combat these scummy operators to chime in and contribute to this little experiment. I've decided to take 1 or 2 of those thousands of spam messages churning through my email account and research them every now and then; find out who they are, either by tracing back the URL they are trying to get me to visit, or other creative means.

My thought is that the more exposed these people are, the less comfortable they would be sending those millions of emails. Pull back the veil of anonymity and secrecy these people hide behind, and show the world exactly whose to blame for clogging our networks and bombarding us with the frustrating chore of sorting out our friends from the garbage that clutters our inboxes.

Every time I successfully locate one of these people, through publicly available information, I will post the general content of their spam message, then post the contact information I found. Then, if possible, I will email them with a link to this blog.

A very simple plan. Will it make a difference? I do not know. Will it make me feel better? ABSOLUTELY!