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Spamholes Fighting Spammers
mike9010 writes "A person named I)ruid has come up with an ingenious way to combat those spammers. His program, spamhole, creates a false 'open relay' that the spammer thinks he/she can send messages through. The messages then get sent nowhere, and the spammer has no idea.
"spamhole is an open project. Hopefully, through user's and developer's contributions, we will amass a collection of spamhole implementations spanning all commonly used platforms, programming languages, etc. Ease of configuration and use are the primary objectives, for the easier to use by the non-techical layperson the implementations are, the more widely adopted and used spamhole will become.""
Stick it in your spamhole, pal!
Perfect...
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
Score: -1 100% Flamebait
+ Five minutes to implement.
+ It will fool spammers for five minutes.
+ Your ISP will disconnect you after five minutes.
Let's chalk this one up as yet another "nice try, shame about the lack of planning".
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Well, I'm told hitting them in the kneecaps can be quite effective too.
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What short sigs we have -
One hundred and twenty chars!
Too short for haiku.
Alternatively, you could hit their house. It really is amazing that a spammer would use their home address to register their spam business. In case you were wondering, the delivery joints in this area won't deliver stuff to this address anymore. Mr. Ralsky apparently didn't pay for *any* of the last 500 large with pineapple and andchovie pizzas that were ordered.
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Talk about arms race.. Now spammers will maintain blacklists for spamholes!