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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."

4 of 156 comments (clear)

  1. 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?

  2. 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?

  3. 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?

  4. 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.