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IBM Researcher Offers an E-Stamp Spam Solution
UnanimousCoward writes "This Internet Week article describes a research project by Scott Fahlman that looks to limit spam using e-stamps. Here is more detailed description of the system under his CMU homepage along with a link to the original paper." As crappy as it sounds, charging some tiny fee per email would cut spam dramatically. 207 of the buggers so far today. Hundreds of megs a month. I'd love to see something done.
Oops... let me apologize for in advance for using the term "national spam blacklist"... I should have said "international spam blacklist".
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"What do you want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? Cause I'm married."
Any solution that involves paying for something that used to be "free" is not going to catch on.
Don't be silly, paying for things that used to be free is how the internet economy survived to become the thriving, economic powerhouse it is... um... today... er, that is....
Well, maybe you're right.
We should take a lesson from Iraq and shoot 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at spammers' headquarters.
Free, and doesn't work. I've just upgraded our servers to SA 2.5, and while it catches a lot of obvious spam, spammers have started to adapt. I'm now getting one or two very chatty emails a day telling me about sites a 'friend' of mine has visited. They look like real emails, and could well be if it weren't for the fact that I don't know the people the come from, and none of my friends write to me telling me how well the viagra they just used worked (and no, I don't want them to).
The best solution I've heard suggested is that everytime anyone receives some spam they donate a small amount to an anonymous fund. When this fund reaches a required level a spammer is brutally murdered and 'spammer' is written in their intestines. Once spammers realise that sending spam can be fatal, they will stop.
(No I don't actually think we should kill spammers. Well, not all the time...)
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Ruf ruf ruf! Ruf ruf ruf ruf. Ruf ruf ruf ruf ruf ruf?
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If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
...But how much of the bulk mail you get is for penis enlargement companies? (Or maybe I don't wnat to know...)
The real irony is: All those fake emails about "Congress is going to start charging for email" that circulated in the 90s would be coming true.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
--I probably don't have all the details correctly, but here's the gist of the funniest and most practical example of junk snail mail I ever heard of. It was back duing the energy crisis of the 70's. It was on one of those TV shows like "That's Incredible". This guy up in new hampshire gets a brainstorm, his heating bills are outta sight. He gets himself on-purpose on every junk mailing list he can find, I mean goes WAY out of his way. Pretty soon he's getting mailbags full a day coming to his house. He gets one of those paper-log roller machines, rolls up the junk mail and burns it in his woodstove!
What I did for electronic spam and getting mailed viruses is I stopped being on lists, stopped using my email addy except to a few friends. It's taken awhile but I'm down to only a few a day now, easy enough to delete. Also using that "junk" feature with mozilla, but no idea if I'm even using it correctly, but I really only get a few now.
The US Postal Service is already PLANNING TO DO THIS. This must be stopped at all costs! Please forward to all your friends! URGENT!
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The day they start charging per email, is the day slashdotters begin work on a free alternative.
Linux Kernel Mailing List here I come! Free money!
Random is the New Order.
It's also a hardship for sending one e-mail to all 10,000 of my employees.
Developers: We can use your help.