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The Spam Conference 2005

Posted by timothy on from the it-seeps-in-the-pores-it-does dept.

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. spam will never be gone by CAIMLAS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only way for spam to finally be filtered and gone would be for the government to make it a felony to send spam, or for a complete redesign of current mail systems which would require centralized authority.

    The first of those things will likely never happen; instead, the government would simply make it legal to send spam for certain reasons, and likely make it illegal to mess with such "mail" - in the same way the federal mail system works. They'd likely get a fair cut of all profits from that.

    If that were to happen, there'd be little likelyhood that authorized hosts would do any good. Even if we can get such authorization sorted out first, it'll likely have design flaws for a good long while which will be exploitable.

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    1. Re:spam will never be gone by northcat · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The only way for spam to go is for the society and current business practices to change. Really, don't you see similarities between spam and today's businesses and marketing?

  2. Kind of sad... by linolium · · Score: 5, Insightful

    SPAM: Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages

    Does anyone else agree with me that it is kind of sad that it has gotten to this point, where we need a conference just to battle these messages?
    Especially when it's only a small core group of individuals which accounts for most of the spam...

    Will there always be people that abuse systems in any possible way?

  3. The biggest spam-enabler... by Puma_Concolor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is when ISPs keep sigining pink contracts. We can filter untill we are blue in the face, but as long as spammers still have unfettered access to 'bullet-proof' hosting we will never win this war. What we need is for ISPs to actually ENFORCE thier AUP/TOS and the problem is solved. Of course the big problem is GREED and MONEY, and ISPs love to rake in spammer money without ANY reguard to consequences to the rest of the net community.

  4. Re:Social Anxiety by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    oh.. ram it up your ass, bigberk!