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Did You Really Want To Read That Spam?
Henn writes "The BBC is carrying
a story about computers that track how much attention you are paying and the "worth" of individual messages. Based on these criterion, it adjusts how intrusive to make the alerts. The story is fairly short, however you can find more depth
over here." Interesting ideas, but for me it's becomming less about time- my filters catch 80% of my spam, meaning it only takes me 10-20 minutes to deal with it, and more about bandwidth. At home, on my modem, downloading several megs of spam seriously interferes with my ability to work. Yay spam!
...is like a day without sunshine.
CmdrTaco still uses a modem to work from home? What happened to the slashdot house? That modern oasis of nerdlyness with a mythical amount of bandwidth?
Great, the more I ignore it, the more annoying it will be. I'm glad I have a reasonably spam proof e-mail system.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
This is bound to impose on corporate synergy. Spam filter developers need to think 'out of the box', possibly utilising the power of OSS development.
We know that spam has become part of your work.
You can't fool us!
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
... and created a new email address for myself, and not only do I not let my address get out to stupid places on the net, I didn't give it to a single person! I have yet, in 8+ months, to get a *single* email sent to that account. Ha! Take that, you spammer bastards.