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And out of the 14 that are reviewed ZERO play Ogg Vorbis.

Marketers, manufacturers, and capitalists: LISTEN UP!

* I'm 29, single, and work in the computer industry. Therefore, I like gadgets and have disposable income.

* I'm a hobbiest musician and I have been encoding everything, no exception, in OGG VORBIS since 2003. Like the teenagers say, so last year.

* It is feasible to port the Vorbis decoder/encoder to a platform without floating point support.

There's your demographic. Stop reaching for the teenagers and start making products for people who can afford them and desperately need them.

Your profit margins will thank you.

PS: I'm posting this from an iBook. I won't buy an iPod until it supports OGG!

E-Mail Authentication Service ensures your email was sent by a real person. When someone emails you for the first time they are asked a very simple question that only a human can answer. Once they answer, they can send you email without a hitch and they never have to authenticate again.

1. Government sponsored RFID tracking everything we do through a world wide ID.
2. A challenge based network were each individual says who can and can't access their information or send them information.

Mod parent up.

His key point is that, if CR was good enough, we'd all be carrying pocket scanners and libraries would really be going online.

There are bigger "killer apps" for foolproof CR than spam-mailing. And I say fool-proof because to defeat this, its gotta be good.

I chuckled about that overrated post above where the guy essentially said "I'm too busy with mid-terms to write an app to accurately read the original "challenge" example. Dude, if you can do that, to hell with midterms--do it.

Mod parent up.

His key point is that, if CR was good enough, we'd all be carrying pocket scanners and libraries would really be going online.

There are bigger "killer apps" for foolproof CR than spam-mailing. And I say fool-proof because to defeat this, its gotta be good.

I chuckled about that overrated post above where the guy essentially said "I'm too busy with mid-terms to write an app to accurately read the original "challenge" example. Dude, if you can do that, to hell with midterms--do it.

Excuse me, what? Where's the proof? That's quite a brave statement to be making considering i've never seen this cracked, ever.

I challenge someone to find an automated response to C/R.

I did hear of a theory where C/R was being cracked by taking the C/R image, posting to a porn session, and letting a seeing person do the work. However, i've yet to witness this in practice. Show me the automated response to C/R that exists beyond a blog theory, and i'll believe. Until them, i hardly consider it "marketing hype".

This has been discussed before, and i replied to this before. Allow others to make calculations on your computer, eh? Would those calculations happen to be the spam solution MS Research came up with? Why don't they stick to that solution?! Strap it to SpamAssassin like these guys do but replacing the C/R, it's gold!

Similar to Seti@Home, sure... Except you pay Microsoft to have the calculations considered.

Also, what is Gates holding in that picture? A joint? Is that was he's smoking thinking people will accept this idea as part of their daily email lives so that microsoft can make even more barrels of cash?

Just yesterday, Microsoft was devising a plan to invoice spammers, now they are suing a spammer. Who needs the operating system business when you got hotmail!

9000 spam emails doesn't sound like that much. An acquaintance of mine is the developer of si20 and there's more spam than 9000 in a measly half a day of operations.

Is this merely a symbolic legal pursuit? Or is this considered a lot of spam by the powers that be?

Paying for postage already exists, it's called a fax.

This is the worst solution ever and the only reason that MS/Yahoo support it is because of Hotmail/YahooMail. They stand to make huge profits because they host the inboxes of millions of users. Every email received at those accounts would invoice the sender. It's a no brainer for BARRELS OF CASH !!! (tm)

In fact, there already was a good solution proposed a few weeks ago, by microsoft no less. Combine it with Spam Assassin the way Spam Interceptor does (replacing the C/R component) and the solution is plausible.

if you can write me a regex that filters that out 80% of the time with 0 false positives, i will pay you 6 figures a year to sit on a chair in my museum as one of life's "mysteries". http://si20.com

I would argue that by releasing this app on thge large user base that is windows users, the best part is, in fact, independent musicians can now make some money without the overhead of manufacturing CD's.

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SPAM INTERCEPTOR NOW!

You can find a mirror of the paper here.

www.si20.com/nmap.php

making sure that anyone with a legitimate reason to contact me can do so without interference from statistical filtering techniques.

It seems that Spam Interceptor has a solution for this stated here where you replace a mailto link with a link to the authorization.

I'm not sure if that's what you were talking about however.

making sure that anyone with a legitimate reason to contact me can do so without interference from statistical filtering techniques.

It seems that Spam Interceptor has a solution for this stated here where you replace a mailto link with a link to the authorization.

I'm not sure if that's what you were talking about however.

You're happy with AOL? Well I'm happy with Spam Interceptor. I don't need 7 million dollars to stop spammers.

Could law legilate the need for utilities like Spam Interceptor?

There are an increasing number of 'victories' in the war on spam by government ; but overall the number of Spam sent is increasing.

While the government can fight blatent abuse of a person or companies communication rights ; they have not (and I believe they can not) come up with legislation that actually makes spam illegal while allowing all legitimate communications to be made unhindered.

The solution to Spam and the new 'free marketing' medium of the Internet really is to use an Authentication system for all communications that are prone to abuse ; and that would work for telephones as well.

What we need is an Authentication System in the email protocol itself, and that is what my company - SolidBlue is working on over the next year or so. Interested researchers can email us and we'll see if we can get an RFC group started.

Because the authentication is done on our server, we can change it and the users won't miss a beat.

Take a look:
http://si20.com/webauth.php?auth_id=17

Steve,

I do appreciate the huge audience and the support, but getting answers was much more important to me than having a Slashdot Story rejected.

The name of my company is SolidBlue Software Inc, and our product is SolidBlue Spam Interceptor.

http://www.si20.com

At the moment we are targeting end-users on the Internet, we have gone through OSDN advertising, Google Advertising and are doing quite a bit of research on people looking for answers to Spam. Obviously we are not spamming people, that avenue is right out of the question.

We have released a free, Shareware version and charge for the upgrade, + the Service of our Authentication System.

What we offer for free, which I personally believe is much more important, is Support to all users. In my opinion that and a free product will get us much farther than a completely open product and paid-for support alone.

We really want to move into targeting Businesses and finding a Distributor that has an established marketing channel. This has been our largest hurdle. Kaspersky, McAffee, Norton and a lot of other potential OEM buyers have actually turned us down with a full working product to persue development of their own product - based entirely on our small market share.

I hope that's enough information, and everybodies feedback is appreciated!

Uhm. There's one link in the entire story. That one might just be it...

An open source, open-standard solution to Exchange would be welcomed by everybody including Microsofts competition.

I can't count the number of software projects out there stifled by Exchange server, or free email services like Hotmail and Yahoo. Microsoft makes it very hard to develop for these services by keeping their protocols and methods under wraps.

Try getting into the corporate market with an email filter that doesn't support exchange ; or an email client that chokes on hotmail. Sad but true - even though free email services are a joke, especially to businesses with an IT department that can configure infinite email addresses for free, on the fly -- free email services are used in *every* business model. It's rediculous!

Open source needs to open the floor for innovation.

--Doug