Spam Conference in Boston

bpfinn writes "Are you working on your own anti-spam solution? Would you like to compare notes with other coders? You'll get your chance at the Spam Conference in Cambridge on January 17, 2003. Among the speakers are: Paul Graham (of "a plan for spam" fame), ESR, John Graham-Cumming (of "POPFile" fame), and Matt Sergeant from MessageLabs. According to the homepage, this conference will be very informal: "no fees, sponsorships, proceedings, luncheons, contests, etc. Just a series of quick, concentrated talks, and then we all go off and get Chinese food." Slashdotters who are peeved about spam can register here."

Comments

Oh I didnt know

[brejc8]

What they should do is to advertise the event using popups.

Heh

[Em Emalb]

"Are you working on your own anti-spam solution? Would you like to compare notes with other coders?"

If you are, and would like the NATIONAL EXPOSURE only email can get you, call the number listed below. You will be giving MILLIONS the opportunity to receive your amazing breakthrough via email.

To unsubscribe (suckers!!) please click the link below.

security?

[2MuchC0ffeeMan]

umm...

since spammers and advertisers always stay one step ahead of technology, shouldn't users register to get in?

i know there's a few spam artists out there i'd like to keep out. any open source software or ideas they come up with and speak about may be directly spoken to the enemy.

granted, this is worst case scenerio, but oh well

An Anti-Spam Solution?

[Lucas Membrane]

There is no such thing as anti-spam, thank goodness. If there were, and if the spammers sent it spam, the spam would be gone, but copious gamma rays and neutrinos would result, and the bystanders would all die from the radiation.

Re:An Anti-Spam Solution?

[geekoid]

if the event took place on the spammers box, I really wouldn't have much of a problem with that... ;)

The only spam conference needed...

[MillionthMonkey]

This problem is not difficult to solve. All you need is a "conference" of enraged global villagers marching up the road to Alan Ralsky's house equipped with dynamite, pitchforks, Bayesian filters, and burning torches! We could bring some diplomas from prestigious nonaccredited universities to get the fire going. And afterwards everyone gets Chinese food.

OK, maybe it wouldn't solve the problem, but it would make great reality TV. Wouldn't you rather watch a spammer get lynched than sit through yet another gold digger beauty pageant on FOX?

Register for the conference.... via email?

[NineNine]

Doesn't this seem just a bit fishy to anybody else?

How to End Spam in Four Easy Steps

[mark_space2001]

1. Declare Spammers are terrorists.

2. Fly a C130 "Ghost" Gunship over their house.

3. Open Fire.

4. Enjoy "Miller" brand beer in a Spam Free world.

Darn

[anotherone]

I was hoping that this would be a conference for spammers rather than anti-spam coders...

Then we could destroy them all in one place.

Finally a cause the entire internet community could rally around.

Repeat repeat repeat article

[Rik van Riel]

If this conference is anti-spam, why are they using slashdot to spam for this conference ?

This thing must have been featured 3 or 4 times on slashdot now...

Re:Spam Conference...

[glwtta]

Besides, what keeps spammers from attending the conference and figuring out how all the spam guarding stuff works?

We'll all talk really quietly.