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IETF to Look at Spam

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the could-this-be-the-end-of-smtp dept.

m00nun1t writes "CNET has an article about the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) looking at what they can do about spam. According to the article, many of the proposals seems to "require changes in basic e-mail technology", which presumably means SMTP (and about time!). Maybe they are looking beyond just SMTP - anyone have any insights here?"

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  1. Re:wheres the first post trolls by Scoria · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Perhaps they are deleting "penis enlargement" spam.

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  2. The really interesting thing about dupes by astrashe · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    The really interesting thing about dupes is that they tend to suggest that there are large numbers of readers who pay more attention to the site than the guys running it.

    If I was running slashdot, I'd probably push the people who had the power to approve stories to read each and every story that gets approved. It seems like a reasonable minimal committment to the community even for volunteers, and presumably some of these guys are drawing actual paychecks for the work they do here.

    The dupes show that the guys approving the stories don't really care enough to take the time to do that.