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Spamfighting Since the Death of MakeLoveNotSpam?

Posted by Cliff on from the keep-your-junk-out-of-my-inbox-KTHX dept.

vacuum_tuber asks: "The now-defunct Lycos anti-spamsite screen saver, MakeLoveNotSpam, was extremely well received despite the whines and hand wringing from the no-one-should-ever-actively-defend-themselves crowd. There was speculation after its demise that Open Source spam-punishing tools would emerge. Other tools such as SpamVampire, LadVampire (punishes fake bank sites), Spam Research Tool and others were mentioned with increasing frequency, but there has been no coherent followup to gauge what people are doing since the death of the Lycos screen saver. What are you doing that you think is effective in punishing spammers or their spam-site sponsors?"

4 of 352 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It's about time by NoelWeb · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    yup... mod me way down, I suck

  2. Re:Slashdot Hypocrisy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    As a /.er who agrees thinks war was a bad idea and spamers should be shot I will point out that we don't know what's going to happen in the next 20 years but chances are IRAQ is going to:

    A) Get worse.

    B) COST US LIVES.

    Where as killing spamers would have little risk to US lives and make things better not worse.

  3. Re:Simple solution... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What are you, Muslim? That's not the solution to every problem.

  4. The French and the Germans? by Luscious868 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    despite the whines and hand wringing from the no-one-should-ever-actively-defend-themselves crowd

    I didn't realize the that the French and the Germans were against the screensaver.

    Relax people, it was a joke ... and a rather bad joke, I might add :-)