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MIT Spam Conference Conclusions

Posted by timothy on from the about-what-you'd-expect dept.

RT Alec writes "The 2003 Spam Conference has concluded, reports InfoWorld. (related read: abstracts of the conference discussions). I was unable to attend the conference, but it appears all that was discussed was filters (client and server). I think the key problem is ISPs that do not block egress traffic on port 25. If you need to send mail through a different SMTP server than provided by your ISP, the admin of that server ought to provide you with a means of using it with authentication on a port other than 25 (you do have permission to use that SMTP server, don't you?). It is not too tough to set up an SMTP server to require authentication, or at a minimum to run off a different port. I am suprised that this is never mentioned as a cure for spam. If just AOL blocked port 25, this could reduce spam by 50% (I base this figure on close examination of the headers of the spam I receive). I was pleased to see that Barry Shein, president of The World (a Boston based ISP) was included in the talks. I am not sure by the abstract (see link above) posted if he mentioned blocking port 25. In a recent interview he did not mention it."

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  1. More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed each year by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed worldwide each year. For no reason.

    Pork is an unhealthy food source. Most people who eat pork also have access to other, non-meat foods.

    Pigs are some of the most intelligent beings on our planet. Why do we kill them by the billions? Just to enjoy the transient pleasure of tasting their flesh?

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    1. Re:More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed each year by alienw · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Relative to you, pigs ARE intelligent. AND they taste better. Win-win situation, isn't it?

      "Sponsor" a vegetarian today.

    2. Re:More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed each year by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.

      Vincent: But bacon tastes good, pork chops taste good...

      Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfuckers. Pigs sleep and root in shit, that's a filthy animal. I don't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.

      Vincent: How about a dog? A dog eats its own feces.

      Jules: I don't eat dog either.

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    3. Re:More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed each year by esper_child · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      We need to kill them to keep them from being able to rise up and take over the land. It is a war out there, Us vs The Piggies. You don't win wars by not killing anyone. Who would you rather it be you or that pig in the corner. One of them has to die. Eating them is just a side product. If we weren't to eat them why do they taste so good?

  2. In Soviet Russia... by -1bynextweek · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    port 25 packets block egress of YOU!!!

  3. Re:One million dollars later by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You can use FreeBSD as a platform to block spam.

    Hey! FreeBSD 5.0 was released this morning and slashdot STILL hasn't reported it!

    MD5 (5.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = 677bf7566f8845cc46549aa167940042
    MD5 (5.0-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso) = e903b890272bde55e34eb81fe11ff80f
    MD5 (5.0-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso) = 78aaff39c326b4f781820f1dd2340061