Spam Advise

[Aaron]

Hello all.

First off, let me say that I am not one of those anti spam zealots.  No, I don't much care for it, 
but my philosophy is a delete key is pretty good for a nominal amount of spam.  This is not an 
e-mail bashing the moderators of this list for not adequately protecting me from spam.  However, 
lately it seems to be getting pretty bad for me.  I receive anywhere from 800-1000 emails a day and 
roughly 700-900 of them are spam.

After careful discussion with my wife I have come to a couple conclusions.

One, My genitals are plenty large and do not need another 3 inches.

Two,  I do not need Viagra (Natural or otherwise) from any online pharmacy.

Three,  I don't need to meet horny singles in my area.

Four, I have no desire to see young sluts sucking c##k.  (At least not for $29.95 a month)

Five, I do not need a new mortgage loan.

and Six,  I probably do not have time to make an additional $1000/wk from home.

Because of this, I have implemented some filters on both my mail server and my personal machine.  
They've cut my spam intake by roughly 20%.  That still leaves hundreds of e-mails a day coming 
through.

So I came up with another idea...  I've developed a system by which incoming spam is either 
filtered or gets sent (manually) to a script that strips the header off and saves the e-mail 
address it was sent from.  Once the address is on the list, all other e-mails that contain spam 
from that e-mail, or others sent to be put on the list are routed to every e-mail address currently 
on the list.  What this does is send roughly 800-1000 spam e-mails a day back to the people sending 
me spam.

My question to the group is this:  What do you think the legal ramifications of this are?  I've 
thought of people spoofing the headers or hacking an account and using it to send spam.  My system 
would then flood unsuspecting people with all my spam.

I would also leave all my headers in tact to make sure they know who's forwarding it to them.  That 
way, hopefully they will remove me in an effort to stop the flow of their own e-mail coming back on 
them.

Any thoughts on this?

Aaron