On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase > > Sent: 23 September 2004 17:09 > > > We really need some *global* rules, e.g. SPF and some other, similar > > method, to get 99% of spamservers out of the internet. > > Nahh. What we really need are not rules; what we need are *hammers*. > Spammers can't hit "send" if all their fingers are broken. There's only > a few thousand real serious spammers in the world who are responsible > for 99.9% of all the spam that gets sent, and hammers are cheap: we > could have a purge, take them all out overnight in one great big "Night > of the Long Mallets"....
I'm sure there are many creative solutions proposed on news:alt.spam (including, but not limited to, printing out every e-mail message sent by a given spammer on some particularly unpleasant brand of paper and force-feeding it to him, or worse). Perhaps the rest of this discussion can take place there? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
