--On Monday, October 06, 2003 11:54 AM -0700 Mike Van Pelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Speaking of nasty little parasites, imagine a 419 spammer. > He gets 100,000 "bites" to his spam. Wow, he must have hit > the jackpot! Except... no. 99,999 of them are fake, > computer-generated "leads", which lead nowhere, but he can't > *tell* they lead nowhere until he tries to follow up on them. > Could he ever find the real moron? I love it. Whenever I hear of the screwfly solution, I always think of an old science fiction short story by that name I read back in the 70's or 80's, in which interstellar real estate developers use this against humans. Maybe the solution is to get the feedback system implemented on a website. Someone figures out what's needed to provide the phony feedback and puts up a HOWTO or something more sophisticated and then someone who gets a matching class of spam submits it to find the matching garbage injector. Still sounds like way too much work to be practical, though. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
