If my kid had to grow up and be a spammer or a thief, I'd rather he be a thief. Adam Kalsey writes an angry polemic against spam. I've been using Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist plugin to fight the commercial spamming hordes and it has worked well so far. If you have an MT site, you need to get it.

The correspondences that Chujoe and Adam exchanged with some lowlife spammers are well worth reading.