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De-spamming Your Inbox The Hard Way
ajain writes "Even after using precautions like dummy email address in public forums, I have been plagued by the spam mails for long time now. Accidentally, I hit upon a not-so-elegant but effective solution recently: Ever thought of shutting down the mail server temporarily to stop spam to your inbox permanently? Well, it seems to work. In my case, a two-day shutdown resulted in 97.5% decrease in spam traffic! Here are the details and a step-by-step guide to this desperate-method of spam reduction. I think I'll model, simulate and then optimize the amount of shut-down time required for spam levels to drop to zero!"
If you're breaking into something, running a DDOS attack or whatever, you're a cracker, as far as I'm concerned. Even if you insist on calling such people hackers, that's a meaning of the word that has nothing to do with the old meaning, of being skilful programmers. And there's no such thing as a white hat cracker.
I believe posters are recognized by their sig. So I made one.
97.5% for two days versus 100% for eternity. That's what I call diminished returns, any math geeks want to work that out?
LK
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