What about using something like FreeDOS? Pretty solid as far as DOS goes, DOS lends it the obsolence angle, plus all the tools to set up a server would probably qualify as obscure. I would guess this would buy you a little more, considering it was never a commercial OS that had its flaws publicly "outed" and made well-known. It doesn't necessarily share any of the holes/flaws that the commercial DOSes do.
I just don't know how any kind of legislation could ever stop or even noticeably slow spam. And I wonder how tightly you'd have to word something like this so you didn't go after legit mailers. I run an ultra-low volume mailing list at work and I get semi-indignant messages all the time from people saying they never signed up, when in fact they've usually forgotten they signed up in the first place (we don't do any address gathering or harvesting).
I always honour the unsubscription requests, even going as far as sending a note of apology, so I wonder how this would affect folks like me that try to be responsible. Having said all that, I'm still all for trying this out, on the off chance it actually works.
And I guess the spam opt-out should be in Esperanto to make sure we can all read it.:P
...but I'm starting to love this man.
If he figures out how to make regular old junk mail opt-out, I'll be the first to nominate him for sainthood. He'll have the miracles thing covered.
big time.
Who's to say this thing won't get (ab)used in a similar manner as the FBI system system a few stories earlier?
Makes me wonder if you could take both stories, slap 'em together in a single email, and really start showing everybody what's out there to be concerned about.
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What about using something like FreeDOS? Pretty solid as far as DOS goes, DOS lends it the obsolence angle, plus all the tools to set up a server would probably qualify as obscure. I would guess this would buy you a little more, considering it was never a commercial OS that had its flaws publicly "outed" and made well-known. It doesn't necessarily share any of the holes/flaws that the commercial DOSes do.
I just wish they'd foreseen the AoTC disaster and shut that down in time.
I just don't know how any kind of legislation could ever stop or even noticeably slow spam. And I wonder how tightly you'd have to word something like this so you didn't go after legit mailers. I run an ultra-low volume mailing list at work and I get semi-indignant messages all the time from people saying they never signed up, when in fact they've usually forgotten they signed up in the first place (we don't do any address gathering or harvesting).
I always honour the unsubscription requests, even going as far as sending a note of apology, so I wonder how this would affect folks like me that try to be responsible. Having said all that, I'm still all for trying this out, on the off chance it actually works.
And I guess the spam opt-out should be in Esperanto to make sure we can all read it. :P
...but I'm starting to love this man. If he figures out how to make regular old junk mail opt-out, I'll be the first to nominate him for sainthood. He'll have the miracles thing covered.
big time. Who's to say this thing won't get (ab)used in a similar manner as the FBI system system a few stories earlier?
Makes me wonder if you could take both stories, slap 'em together in a single email, and really start showing everybody what's out there to be concerned about.