On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Colin A. Bartlett wrote:
> Jack Gostl Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 8:15 AM
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> > All of which makes me wonder exactly who is motivated to fix this mess. I
> > suppose that any day now someone will say that spam is the engine of
> > economic recovery. (G)
>
> _We_ are. The more people that we can get to implement this sort of
> filtering and blocking technology, the less people that actually see the
> spam, the more expensive it becomes for spammers to continue to operate. If
> we can make it harder for them, we can hold out hope that we will eventually
> drive them out of business. No arguing that it will be at some expense -- an
> expense that many of my customers have been willing to take on.
I'm just joking Colin. Its like the very very old argument that piracy on
the high seas is good for the global economy.
What I don't understand is why there is no crackdown on the obvious
fraud. At least half, possibly more, of the spam I receive trys to sell
things that are obviously fraudulent. Shutting those companies down would
do wonders for the spam problem.
By the way, there is an interesting article on "fighting back" by Paul
Graham called "Filters That Fight Back."
http://www.paulgraham.com/ffb.html
He basically suggests culling URLs from spam and kicking off something
like wget to retrieve them. If enough people did that, you would have what
amounts to a DDOS attack on the people who pay the spammers. I have some
qualms about doing this, more ethical than technical, but its certainly an
interesting idea.
Its ridiculously simple to implement if you've installed the right perl
modules.
>
> cheers,
> Colin
>
> Colin A. Bartlett
> Kinetic Web Solutions
> www.kineticweb.biz
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