You seem to assume that: a) I am a programmer. b) I know perl. c) I want to wade through someone else's code to fix some issue I have with Slashdot's layout.
If I remember correctly, Slash uses templates that can be as standards-conforming or non-conforming as the page owner wants. I remeber this from some earlier discussions about the same subject, and someone said that they have complained about it to Slashdot editors, but they just don't feel like doing it. Either the templates are too hard to configure to even someone who has developed them, or Slashdot editors are just lazy. Either way, I am not going to do their job for them.
Especially since Slashdot uses almost, but not quite, the exact opposite of valid HTML.
Besides: Tables for formatting are dead, long live css. If they used css, they wouldn't have to break long strings of characters with spaces, because only the offending comment would be wide, not the whole damn page...
Well, what I meant by people starting to use filters is, of course, that companies start to put these filters in NEW and IMPROVED email programs. When enough "common people" start to get annoyed that messages from relatives are increasingly hard to find under dozens of penispump ads, they will start complaining.
They will call technical support and say that their internet is broken and demanding that the ISP stop sending them advertisments. That's when a) ISP's will implement better filtering b) software houses start making better filters.
I agree that client-side filtering is done "too late" to currently save bandwidth, but if people start using efficent filtering, the amount of spam they see, and possibly respond to, decreases.
As response rates go down, the profitability of spam goes down, and people stop spamming. So in the long-long term, it will decrease the bandwidth spam consumes.
A quicker solution would be if (all) "regular" servers blackholed known spamhauses and open relays, but unfortunately few commercial ISP are ready to do so...
If you have 200000 uniques visit your site every month, you'd need small donations from a small percentage of people visiting your site. If the material on your site truly is original, and people want to see it, I'm sure some are willing to pay.
I made a hotmail account that has a long username by repeating my "real" username several times. That way it is pretty safe from aaaaaaa, aaaaaab -type attacks. I've gotten 0 spams so far.
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You seem to assume that:
a) I am a programmer.
b) I know perl.
c) I want to wade through someone else's code to fix some issue I have with Slashdot's layout.
If I remember correctly, Slash uses templates that can be as standards-conforming or non-conforming as the page owner wants. I remeber this from some earlier discussions about the same subject, and someone said that they have complained about it to Slashdot editors, but they just don't feel like doing it. Either the templates are too hard to configure to even someone who has developed them, or Slashdot editors are just lazy. Either way, I am not going to do their job for them.
Especially since Slashdot uses almost, but not quite, the exact opposite of valid HTML.
Besides: Tables for formatting are dead, long live css. If they used css, they wouldn't have to break long strings of characters with spaces, because only the offending comment would be wide, not the whole damn page...
But it was a good story. Just like "Grandma on a roof rack"
Okay, this one's easy:
a) Terrorists are evil
b) Nucular radiation is evil
Therefore terrorists emit nucular radiation.
QED
It doesn't have to be. So much spam is sent around that even if they get less than 1% replies, they still get thousands of new customers.
At which point nobody would use email, and there would be no spam.
YAY, We win!
Well, what I meant by people starting to use filters is, of course, that companies start to put these filters in NEW and IMPROVED email programs. When enough "common people" start to get annoyed that messages from relatives are increasingly hard to find under dozens of penispump ads, they will start complaining.
They will call technical support and say that their internet is broken and demanding that the ISP stop sending them advertisments. That's when a) ISP's will implement better filtering b) software houses start making better filters.
I agree that client-side filtering is done "too late" to currently save bandwidth, but if people start using efficent filtering, the amount of spam they see, and possibly respond to, decreases.
As response rates go down, the profitability of spam goes down, and people stop spamming. So in the long-long term, it will decrease the bandwidth spam consumes.
A quicker solution would be if (all) "regular" servers blackholed known spamhauses and open relays, but unfortunately few commercial ISP are ready to do so...
And that is exactly what bayesian email filtering is based on.
At least it's better than tux racer.
That's not saying much...
I love the Metaspy exposed logo.
They are probably all taken, though. All the cool names that mean something are...
I raed it when I was 7 hahahaha now your teh infarior!!!!!!!111111111111
Have you considered asking for donations?
If you have 200000 uniques visit your site every month, you'd need small donations from a small percentage of people visiting your site. If the material on your site truly is original, and people want to see it, I'm sure some are willing to pay.
I meant on the server. Everybody knows IE is like a swiss cheese, but would it be possible to take control of the server that runs the cgi?
Do you think they check for buffer overflows? Can you insert runnable code into a VERY long message to r00t their b0x3n...
If I'm stealing from them by not loading their images, then they are stealing from me by forcing me to download their images.
Okay, I don't want to watch them all, just tell me which one he is.
explorer on the Internet.
Oh never mind
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I am funny too, mod me up!
I made a hotmail account that has a long username by repeating my "real" username several times. That way it is pretty safe from aaaaaaa, aaaaaab -type attacks. I've gotten 0 spams so far.
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