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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 15, 2004 @05:50AM from the i'm-adding-a-mail-filter-right-now dept.

cjjjer writes "The Register has a article on Yelp, the newest local search engine based on your local friends and businesses. Robert X. Cringely over at I, Cringely has another take on this new type of service as well. Seems to me a service like this will only generate a lot of useless emails that will go un-answered. Wait a minute, that sounds a lot like spam."

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Finally! by drgreg911 · 2004-10-15 05:54 · Score: 5, Funny

It's about time somebody saved me the hassle of having to hit that CC button, my efficiency is going to skyrocket now.
But... by MastaBaba · 2004-10-15 05:54 · Score: 5, Funny

how how can it be abused by the sex industry?
1. Re:But... by jonathan+z · 2004-10-15 06:29 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That's easy! You can have your network of (skeezy) friends rate all the local prostitutes for you; based on the well-known formula: (Sexual Skills)*(Attractiveness)/(Price)*(Number of STDs)=(Hookosity Index) (The higher the rating, the more preferable the hooker.)
question by scaaven · 2004-10-15 06:08 · Score: 4, Funny

Question for yelp: "How can I help stop spam?"
Answer: your friends don't know, so the question is forwarded to everyone on Earth.

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Re:Not sure, by Orgazmus · 2004-10-15 06:11 · Score: 5, Funny

The early naughties ;)

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Spam blacklists... by Zocalo · 2004-10-15 06:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Call me a sceptic if you want, but I think that this "service" is going to get blacklisted by the DNSBLs etc so fast it's untrue:
U nsolicited? Check!
C ommericial? Check!
E mail? Check!
That spells "spam" in my book. I think I'll just add an entry to my SMTP access list now, and get it over with:
yelp.com ERROR:"554 Use Google, you dumb fsck!"
That should do it. :)

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1. Re:Spam blacklists... by savagedome · 2004-10-15 06:27 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  yelp.com ERROR:"554 Use Google, you dumb fsck!"
  
  Or you can be polite and point them here
  
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Artists out there...? by julesh · 2004-10-15 06:43 · Score: 4, Funny

There must be somebody here who can do a reasonable imitation of the style of artwork they've got on that front page. I want to see the conclusion to that storyboard. Preferably involving a long, heavy wooden pole labelled "cluestick".