Paul Graham: Filters that Fight Back

Mortimer.CA writes "Paul Graham is back with another article about combating spam. It's entitled Filters that Fight Back: 'One intriguing idea is to literally fight back: to make filters disable spammers' servers by automatically following all the links in each incoming email. We may be driven to this in order to achieve accurate filtering anyway. Why wait?' One danger is someone doing a DDoS by sending fake spam."

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Dangerous Precident

[MrEnigma]

The only problem I can see with this...is it would be really easy for anybody to send out a DDOS attack now.

Just get some spam software, throw your friends server name in the email, and everybodies computer helps out in taking it down.

Sure it sounds ok, but i'm sure there are ways around this, staggering types of emails that are sent etc.

John's PopFile software works almost perfect right now, granted it's a client side application, and this is looking to take care of the problem....