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The Spam Conference 2005

dos_dude writes "This year's Spam Conference is over. As usual, the MIT provides low and high bandwidth webcasts. The talks featured a full spectrum of anything possible. From absurd to sound, from boring to entertaining, and from dead-horse-beating to brand-new. Highlights: John Graham-Cumming presented the results of the survey he did with the help of many Slashdot readers, Jon Praed gave the details of the trial against spammer Jeremy Jaynes and friends, Brian McWilliams posed the question what will happen when all spam is finally filtered, and Matthew Prince plugged Project Honeypot in a very entertaining way. Shameless but useful plug: here's the final schedule with links to the webcasts."

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  1. Hey Timothy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Do you think Michael is a wanker?

  2. John Graham-Cumming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How do they get their anti-spam software from filtering off all the mail from someone with such a name?

    1. Re: John Graham-Cumming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      In Soviet Russia, John Graham is Cumming on YOU!

    2. Re: John Graham-Cumming? by kabloom · · Score: 2, Funny

      How do you think he got involved in the anti-spam scene? He doesn't want false positives!

  3. John Graham-Cumming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How did John Graham-Cumming get through High School with a name like that?

  4. At a certain point... by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 4, Funny

    At a certain point, we will spend more time reading about anti-Spam measures than we will be reading about Spam.

    Since there is a Slashdot article about Spam every day, and I usually spend about 5-10 minutes deleting spam, we might have already reached this point.

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    Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
  5. oops, wrong one. by supernova87a · · Score: 3, Funny

    oops, I thought the article was talking about the 3rd Annual Nigerian Email conference.