What the hell do you want to be a code monkey for? Long hours, poor pay, no respect, and a required willingness to train your replacements in Bangalore. It's not much of a career choice.
[X] Technical [ ] Legislative [ ] Market-Based [ ] Vigilante...approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it will not work:
[ ] Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses. [ ] Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected. [ ] No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money. [ ] It is defenseless against brute force attacks. [ ] It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it. [ ] Users of email will not put up with it. [ ] Microsoft will not put up with it. [ ] The police will not put up with it. [ ] Requires too much cooperation from spammers. [X] Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once. [ ] Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers. [ ] Spammers do not care about invalid addresses in their lists. [ ] Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business.
Specifically, your plan fails to account for:
[ ] Laws expressly prohibiting it. [X] Lack of centrally controlling authority for email. [ ] Open relays in foreign countries. [ ] Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses. [ ] Asshats. [X] Jurisdictional problems. [ ] Unpopularity of weird new taxes. [ ] Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money. [X] Huge existing software investment in SMTP. [ ] Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack. [ ] Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email. [ ] Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes. [ ] Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches. [ ] Extreme profitability of spam. [ ] Joe jobs and/or identity theft. [ ] Technically illiterate politicians. [ ] Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers. [ ] Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves. [ ] Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering. [ ] Microsoft Outlook.
In addition, the following philosophical objections may also apply:
[ ] Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet have ever been shown practical. [ ] Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable. [ ] SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation. [X] Blacklists suck. [ ] Whitelists suck. [ ] We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored. [ ] Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud. [ ] Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks. [X] Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually. [ ] Sending email should be free. [ ] Why should we have to trust you and your servers? [ ] Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses. [ ] Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem. [ ] Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome. [ ] I don't want the government reading my email. [ ] Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough.
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
[ ] Sorry, but I don't think it would work. [X] This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. [ ] Nice try, asshat! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Just hire a full-time sysadmin. They're the cheapest of the cheap, and will gladly work an eighty-hour week for just a bag of Fritos and a can of Mountain Dew. Sysadmins even cost less than your janitorial service!
I think you have forgotten you are merely an electronic janitor, and not fit to wipe the dust from the secretary's keyboard. Remember your place, Employee 1450936! Report for reassignment immediately!
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"Employment protection?" WTF are you talking about?
You, sir, are a blithering idiot!
Only meteorites have a 100% chance of having hit something.
What the hell do you want to be a code monkey for? Long hours, poor pay, no respect, and a required willingness to train your replacements in Bangalore. It's not much of a career choice.
I too was born and raised in Los Angeles. And in response to your post, all I can say is: Bwuahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Hah! I fully support the bulldozing of Corona. And Hemet. Hell, just knock down the entire Inland Empire. What a waste of space.
I'm astonished that nobody has yet referenced the book Angry Young Spacemen!
Thank god, the travesty has finally come to an end.
I have an HTC TyTN II. HTC certainly does make some sweet phones.
Nah, this is just a bailout for the poor Nigerians. You know, just like the government is giving to everyone else.
Too bad he wasn't using it.
For sufficiently large values of zero, yes.
Don't forget to have a large bucket of water handy, in case of fire.
You are a moron. And I don't mean the plural "you," but the singular "you." As in, you are a moron.
Only old people get iPods.
Will a CS degree cause erectile dysfunction?
You're asking a departmental procedure question on Slashdot? You're doomed!
First Post! What do I win?
Your anti-spam idea advocates a:
...approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it will not work:
[X] Technical
[ ] Legislative
[ ] Market-Based
[ ] Vigilante
[ ] Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses.
[ ] Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected.
[ ] No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money.
[ ] It is defenseless against brute force attacks.
[ ] It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it.
[ ] Users of email will not put up with it.
[ ] Microsoft will not put up with it.
[ ] The police will not put up with it.
[ ] Requires too much cooperation from spammers.
[X] Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once.
[ ] Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers.
[ ] Spammers do not care about invalid addresses in their lists.
[ ] Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business.
Specifically, your plan fails to account for:
[ ] Laws expressly prohibiting it.
[X] Lack of centrally controlling authority for email.
[ ] Open relays in foreign countries.
[ ] Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses.
[ ] Asshats.
[X] Jurisdictional problems.
[ ] Unpopularity of weird new taxes.
[ ] Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money.
[X] Huge existing software investment in SMTP.
[ ] Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack.
[ ] Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email.
[ ] Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes.
[ ] Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches.
[ ] Extreme profitability of spam.
[ ] Joe jobs and/or identity theft.
[ ] Technically illiterate politicians.
[ ] Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers.
[ ] Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves.
[ ] Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering.
[ ] Microsoft Outlook.
In addition, the following philosophical objections may also apply:
[ ] Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet have ever been shown practical.
[ ] Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable.
[ ] SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation.
[X] Blacklists suck.
[ ] Whitelists suck.
[ ] We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored.
[ ] Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud.
[ ] Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks.
[X] Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually.
[ ] Sending email should be free.
[ ] Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
[ ] Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses.
[ ] Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem.
[ ] Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome.
[ ] I don't want the government reading my email.
[ ] Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough.
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
[ ] Sorry, but I don't think it would work.
[X] This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
[ ] Nice try, asshat! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Grant, is that you?
Just hire a full-time sysadmin. They're the cheapest of the cheap, and will gladly work an eighty-hour week for just a bag of Fritos and a can of Mountain Dew. Sysadmins even cost less than your janitorial service!
If? That boat left the docks a long time ago.
I think you have forgotten you are merely an electronic janitor, and not fit to wipe the dust from the secretary's keyboard. Remember your place, Employee 1450936! Report for reassignment immediately!
Back in my day, we just added a drop or two of water, smoothed out the face of the tablet, and then started over again with a new stick.