Analysis of Spam, and a Proposed Solution

2bot_or_not_2bot writes "Spam: The Phenomenon is a detailed analysis of spam: products, scams, viruses, obfuscation methods, etc. Failed, and doomed-to-fail, methods of blocking spam are described. A general solution is proposed that does not: invade privacy, perform wide censorship or blacklisting, or involve payment and cooperation with corporations (beyond the transport and storage of data)." Hmmm.

Comments

hmmm..

[twiggy]

first post?

seriously though.. the article may be interesting, but the hmmmm link says it all...

there will not be a solution, because like copy protection, everything can be circumvented.

Re:Boycott of Microsoft's Caller ID for E-mail

[twbecker]

That's a great idea. Lets arbitrarily kill one of the better proposals for dealing with a problem that will soon destroy email's acceptance as a useful medium, to make a philisophical point.