Impoverish a Spammer Today

esj at harvee writes "Recently the Camram project released its latest version of a hybrid sender-pays anti-spam system. The project has proven that sender-pays works and has demonstrated how to make it work with existing e-mail systems. Camram has developed hybrid sender-pays techniques that scale down to the desktop and up to the enterprise. It's a completely decentralized system that can put spam-fighting power in the hands of individuals. It gives you control of not only the current generation of spam, but also any future commercial spam -- why replace Viagra ads from a scam artist with Viagra ads from Pfizer?"

Comments

Re:When do I get a shock-the-spammer protcol?

[TheRealMindChild]

I call bullshit on you, sir. While I agree that these things are not the ultimate solution, crying that it is unfair is rediculous in itself.

If you don't want to perticipate, then don't. As time goes on, you evolve or die. You don't hear anyone bitching that the average webserver nowadays has to be like 500mhz AT LEAST, with multitude of ram, etc, when at some point inhistory, a 486DX was plenty sufficient for serving webpages. But the climate changed.

You get no tissues from me.

Re:When do I get a shock-the-spammer protcol?

[jazmataz23]

As much as I'd like to berate you as many of my siblings do, maybe I'll just remind you that the real information IS NOT ON SLASHDOT. SLASHDOT IS A BLOG. The article goes over several objections, specifically yours: "I run a 'legitimate' email list, my server's going to crumble under the load!" It is one click away from slashdot, called "Frequently Raised Objections"

I propose a compute-intensive stamp for posting to slashdot, instead of the retarded delays we currently have. Why not one of those obfuscated words, like when you sign up for a free email account? That way illiterate asshats like yourself won't clutter up the conversation!

jaz