[ale]getting waaayyy OT It begins...

[walter Sams]

my 1.3 cents worth on this issue of the best way to deal with spam is to
use an email program that lets you filter out any address that you do
not wish to receive from.  It will take each person a bit of time to get
their approved lists in order and they will miss some mail that they
want, but it will stop most if not all annoying spam from reaching their
desktop.

I have little faith in anti spam programs, legislation or efforts by the
masses to convince the senders of spam to stop.  

Walter Sams

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 09:09, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 08:49, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > <snip>> contents to mislead, deceive, and coerce.  
> > 
> > I've suggested that ISPs and home users start replying to every spam that 
> > crosses their system - including the aaa at aol.com dictionary attempts.  If we 
> > poison the well of good addresses, we might get some respite.  There's also the 
> > suggestion that every spam with a URL get crawled by a spider - slam their 
> > webservers down with a single response from every single message they send!
> 
> Ah, so you favor escalation.  What good is replying to spam when, many
> times, the reply-to/from addresses are either bogus or stolen?  And what
> good is collecting URLs from spam for the "can-of-whoopass" effect if it
> simply points to a real fast web server that can take the load? 
> Remember the Free Software load-balancers, commodity hardware, and
> clustering software we love so much?  Besides, they can load up their
> spam with a hundred or a thousand URLs and fight right back.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> 
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