Spammers' Retaliation for Antispam Success?

A company has been hacked and is under attack

[Hollywood]

I signed up for acompany with the name blue in it to report spam, they got hacked and now I am getting hundred and thousands of nonsense spam messages.

I pay thousands in taxes every year and I swear none of my money gets put to good use!

I am tired of it!

Notice to these report spam users, you are in for a hell of a spam attack unless you find ways to stop it!

Please try to stop it and the FTC better get thier (*&^ in order and do (*&^ about this!

[frenzy77]

Hey Hollywood:)

This link may help you out. It involves Joe Jobs.
Basicly email bounce backs. There are links in the thread to an article that describes what it is and what to do about the problem.

Hope this helps you out Hollywood:)
Here is the link:

[webmasterworld.com...]

Talk to ya soon:)

frenzy77

[tedster]

The story is big enough to hit Wired:

[wired.com...]

Bulk e-mailers, he said, want to stifle the spread of... a tool that
customers install on their computers that automatically floods spammers
with opt-out messages.

So the spammers are upset with being spammed and are spamming back more intensively -- or something like that. At any rate, it sure does sound like a battlefield.