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Microsoft, Yahoo Investigate Spam Solution
bllfrnch writes "The NY Times (account required, yada yada) has an article about the suggestion of email postage to stop the advent of spam. Apparently, both Microsoft and Yahoo! support such an initiative, as they are the largest email service providers. Best quote: ''Damn if I will pay postage for my nice list,' said David Farber, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who runs a mailing list on technology and policy with 30,000 recipients'."
Would this really help?
How come stamps can't stop all the spam I get through snail mail? Please, make those AOL disks stop!
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
I realize you're being facetious, but I still don't get 100 AOL discs a day, like I do spam. Hell, if I did, I wouldn't have had to use my nice Snoop CD for my wall mural.
my tweezer skills. It's not enough that I've spent decades removing paperclips, business cards, broken diskettes, credit cards, diskette labels, coins, and other assorted crap from drives and systems....
Now I need to worry about stamps too, just as my eyesight is diminishing.
Score one for the hardware folks! Best idea ever!
I don't know about that. I'd love to invoice Microsoft for all my wasted memory and processor cycles.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
Wasn't one of the hallmarks of a doomed .com company the fact that they tried to get people to pay for something they usually got for free?
Like SCO's "Linux license"?
...Does this mean if I don't pay, I won't get another email from yahoo or msn?
Remind me again, where's the downside of this?
--Storm
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Shameless plug. Like you weren't expecting it.
Seems to me the quickest way to prove how little postage does for spam would be to sign up a few top-level MS and Yahoo execs for every free catalogue there is... anyone up to posting names and addresses? ;)
(Yeah, I'm mostly joking, but wasn't it slashdot that reported it when the "Spam King" got this same treatment?)
The longer I'm a member of the Human Race, the more I believe Apocalypse is a valid solution.
Or if we just convinced the RIAA that spam was affecting their music sales
;-)
hummm, I think your on to something here.
how 'bout a peer to peer system that uses open relays. Pit the RIAA against the spammers and let them fight it out!
Thats a fight that I would like to watch!
I hope I didn't give PEPSI or the PO any ideas there.... :-/
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Sadly dumb people buy shit from telemarketers and spammers.
And there lies the cause and problem for almost everything, damn people can't be trusted. Cut them out of the link and everything will be fine.
If these spammers could simply mail to the flotsam and jetsam of the world then everything would be fine. In fact there should be a list of dumb people, just to make the spammers life easier, and the rest of us slightly more content with the world.
Whenever someone has an open relay, we should go to their company, drag their server outside and run that shit over with the biggest truck we can find.
Anonymous Cowards - Oh God, How I hate you
I was thinkinhg a trail of IP addresses added to the header would help. Just have each SMTP server append the IP of where the mail came from and then one SHOULD be able to trace where email truly come from. This should at least allow blocking of computers with viruses and open relays.