Online Marketers to Stamp out Spam?

CodeHog writes "A group of online marketers want to get rid of spam and are proposing a registry base system for transmitting email. They are calling the project Lumos. Computer World has an aritcle on it Online marketers offer new antispam initiative . Doesn't it seem like these are the same businesses that profit from spam? Even better, this is being proposed by ESPC. The member list doesn't look too anti-spam to me." The obvious issue of course is that most spammers won't follow the rules anyway. My spam is up 20% over the 1st quarter of 2003! Yay!

Comments

Yes, let's hand email over to marketers

[Anonymous Coward]

And lets also hand over civil rights to the Klan.

Spam up 20%

[RollingThunder]

My spam is up 20% over the 1st quarter of 2003!

So how can I get spam futures into my portfolio? Something going up 20% a quarter is just what the stockbroker ordered!

Incredibly intuitive notion

[mao che minh]

Terrific idea. I assert that we should also award the power to draft anti-monopoly legistlation to Microsoft Corporation.

Of course

[7x7]

I will gladly post my email to a public "do not mail" list. I assume the list will be harvested to "remove" me.

Re:web log spam

[Mr. Sketch]

I am using a script that displays the recent referrers and it is currently half full of spam.

Hmm, now it seems to be half full of slashdot.org referrers.

ESPC are spammers

[gorbachev]

"The member list doesn't look too anti-spam to me."

That's damn right. It's the Who's Who of spam-for-hire operations. Every single one of them spams. It's just that they claim their spam is not spam.

Proletariat of the world, unite to kill spammers. Remember to shoot the knees first, so that they can't run away while you slowly torture them to death.

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