On: Ask HN: Spam fighting with bogus lead gen nowdays?

[niyazpk]

When you start playing on the same standards, what is the difference between you and them?

[tdoggette → niyazpk]

That's nonsense. Spam deliberately attempts to defraud (at worst) and irritates (at best) millions of people. Fighting back is attempting to prevent this, by wasting the time of people that spam. That's the difference, and the two acts aren't ethically similar.