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Spam, Milord

Posted by michael on from the green-eggs-desperately-needed dept.

Your daily dose of spam... rjwoodhead writes "Hansard, the official journal of the UK parliament, reports on a recent discussion of spam in the House of Lords which not only mentions Monty Python, but reads like one of their skits." A New York spammer has been arrested. One account isn't scientifically representative, but it's a grim picture when you're showing a spam-doubling every 42 days. And an article in New Scientist suggests solving a puzzle, which is essentially the same idea as hash cash.

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  1. The real thing by brett_sinclair · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If you haven't seen it yet, a visit to http://www.spam.com is a must. This is the meat replacement product the Pythons were talking about. There's a nice screensaver, and wonderful slogans like "SPAM Lite. Try it.". And it's apparently all very serious.

  2. The only way to battle spam by Enrico+Pulatzo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    is to make it unprofitable. It's really not a question of passing appropriate laws as much as combatting it with economics. If a practice doesn't yield dough, it'll die off. (probably to be replaced by something more annoying and worse, but still...) Ignoring it won't work, as the problem will still affect servers and hog bandwidth (hence the name). It really is parallel to the war on drugs. Maybe excessive taxation would work, but it's a global problem, not a local one.

  3. Spam spam spam ... by smcd · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Spam spam spam...