George Lucas is releasing the Original Star Wars DVD box on May [25], 2007 due to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the relase of ANH and due to pressure from fans to be parted with yet more money
Deep down inside, I am counting on this to happen.
Then there won't be any reason to buy those bootleg DVD rips of the first laserdisc release of the 'Original Trilogy'.
Too bad one must 'bootleg' to get the original 1977/1980/1983 versions of the first 3 STAR WARS films on DVD (via DVD rips of the first laserdisc release of the films).:(
Boyz today need these graphics-laden games so that they can perfect blasting everything in sight into a bloody mass of disgusting pulp.
Hence all the fuss over the belated release of Id Software's 'Doom III' which is ultimately nothing more than than their 'Castle Wolfenstein' with better graphics, more weapons, and more gore.
As for me, possibly the one 'classic' arcade game I liked the best was TRON. It was pattern-driven like PAC-MAN but there was enough randomness involved to keep the player on his or her toes.
Simply send the URLs to the 'infringing' content to your ISP and the MPAA/RIAA and ask all parties concerned to look at and/or hear the 'infringing' content.
That should be the end of the matter. If not, then send all parties concerned the 'infringing' content with a bill for expenses in sending the 'infringing' content to them via registered mail with return receipt. If you are not reimbursed, then use the 7-step litigation procedure outlined by the parent poster.
Using decoy files will do nothing but waste bandwidth, slow down the internet, and cause the MPAA/RIAA to scream 'Entrapment' while they seek out pirated content from IP addresses not already blacklisted.
The user-selectable ability to 'ignore' the IMG, OBJECT, and APPLET HTML tags and the 'onload' and 'onunload' JavaScript commands in webpages.
By doing this, the pop-up, malware, banner ad-ridden internet just got MUCH nicer to browse through. Just blocking images not on the same 'machine' as the viewed webpage would quash A LOT of bandwidth wasted by banner-ad networks like the (in)famous DoubleClick.
Use a hardware router that filters out *ALL* unsolicited incoming internet connections. This should 'hide' your computer from others while on the internet. In addition, use a software firewall program such as Outpost.
Install an antivirus program such as AVG and keep it constantly up-to-date.
'Harden IE' by disabling ActiveX, Java, and Javascript. No more IE 0wnage!
Delete/rename the Windows Scripting Host. No more 0wnage via VBScript!
By doing all of the above, it should now be safe to use Outlook (Express) to check your email and not get 0wned by some email-based exploit. Be on the lookout for spam (FREE V14gr4!!!), phish (id theft attempts), fraud (Nigerian advanced fee fraud), and malware (the latest Wintel/OE mass-mailing-virus). To avoid running emailed malware by accident, consider using my approach which renders known and unknown emailed malware 'inert' and safe to handle provided the system hasn't been compromised first.
And laws haven't been created to change social habits. Ever heard of the DMCA?
Easily flouted. Just have Americans in America post their DMCA-infringing information anonymously to Usenet or a throwaway/anti-DMCA friendly website/FTP site. Even better is for Non-USA individuals to post such information freely to the web--the DMCA doesn't applay to them as they are not U.S. citizens. However, because of the Berne Convention, copyright infringers may be extradited from one country to another as was the case of that guy from Australia.
"why not use technological means to filter them out for good!"
That's what we're doing. Worked so far? No?
Until now. Unfortunately, my approach makes spam and malware 'almost impossible' NOT 100% impossible.
As long as there is an internet and the people using it crave 'easy money', there will ALLWAYS be spam and (zombie mail relay based) malware.
Re:Real life pong-a rant and a reminisce....
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Mechanical Pong
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Amazing how such a stupidly simple game[PONG] could be so captivating to a primitive audience. Are we smarter these days or just more jaded?
Nah, I would posit that most gamers are 'seduced' by the graphics of a game and not the playability of the game. That is why I'd rather play the classic videogames from the 'golden era' of gaming (~1978 - ~1985). The graphics were crude by the games were really fun!
Street Fighter II (1991) is probably the pardigm shift away from game playability and more to 'digital eye candy'. This game was both fun to play and had great graphics (for its time). Once it became a rousing success, it opened the floodgates to fighting game sequels and clones. As a result, all the 'classic' games were left by the wayside in favor of 'fighting games, shooting games, driving games, and DDR-style games' with fabulous graphics but with nearly brain-dead game play.... =/
Anyway, to get back on topic I remember years and years and years ago playing a mechanical PONG game made as a self-contained tabletop toy. It was about the size of a 'standard' computer monitor and I think TOMY made it. Does anybody remeber playing this particular 'PONG game'?
Re:DomainKeys will not work. Crypto costs time and (Score:1) by B2382F29 (742174) on Friday September 17, @08:35AM (#10275453)
It still isn't useful against spammers because the filter rules are too simple and too inflexible.
The only possible use is against exploits as HTML-mails are converted to plain text. Nice "i can program an email-server"-project but nothing worth to use in daily life.
-- Windows is not the answer. Windows is the question. The answer is NO. - stolen sig
How do you get morons to quit buying junk from spam advertisements?
Make it illegal to sell products that are advertised in that manner, and prosecute the sellers. As has been said many times here, follow the money.
It won't work. there is too much money at stake for the credit card firms to give up 'subsidizing' spam. And even if they all refused to honor spam purchases and stopped setting up new email-based merchants, there is always checks and money orders available to facilitate payment for goods and services promoted by spam.
As has been said elsewhere, spam is a societal issue. Since the hard core spammers won't quit spamming and law enforcement doesn't seem to scare them to stop, and email users by and large don't want to pay extra for the priveledge of using email (it is included in their internet connection agreement), why not use technological means to filter them out for good!
I did this some time ago in the very first version of software I wrote here. I set the method aside for a method that is faster and doesn't depend on spelling.
Better save blair1q's post for posterity now before these guys force Slashdot to delete it like the 'assassin' post I can't find and link to at the moment....
A lot of people died to make sure this story got passed down unchanged to the present day.
All things considered equal, people will not knowingly die for something they know not to be true....
Since it is illegal to test people's intelligence in the U.S. for a job
I hear this is being done out in 'resumeland'. That is, the HR personnel get so many resumes for a job opening they simply discard resumes that have spelling errors or other 'minor' problems with them--sounds like another form of intelligence test.
Even 'McJob' applications are an itelligence test--if you are able to fill it out properly and the HR personnel like what they see on it, you 'might' get called in for an interview!...
Why bother with quantum encryption when two parties can use Diffie-Hellman to create and share a secret key. All the eavesdroppers will see is a buncha big numbers shooting about on the wires. For the paranoid, the two parties could conduct some sort of secure passphrase exchange to authenticate themselves before the goodies are exchanged across the secure channel.
Isn't this just as secure and less complicated than quantum encryption?
It still isn't useful against spammers because the filter rules are too simple and too inflexible.
The 900+ email scoring rules in SpamAssasin are totally irrelevant and unecessary!
I have identified the 8 hallmarks of spam and malware, everything else in such email doesn't matter as the 8 hallmarks are deemed 'unwanted content' as needed by those that use my software.
1. File attachments - if not from expected sources, it is likely malware--usually the latest mass-mail-virus-to-hit-unsuspecting-Windows-users.
2. HTML - a waste of bandwith to send legitimate, plain-text email and a delivery vehicle for spam, phish attempts (ID theft), scams, and malware.
3. Quoted printable content - not needed for 'standard' email. It is used in HTML email and to encode 'incriminating' commerce characters in an attempt to avoid filtering.
4) Percent signs (% - used primarily in commerce and a potentially 'expensive' web browser exploit via HTML)
5) Dollar signs ($ - used primarily in commerce and, to a lesser extent, in assembler source code listings.)
6) Numbers (0123456789) - needed by spammers to create prices, website urls, email addresses, postal addresses, and contact phone numbers. When interacting with first-time correspondents via email, numbers are likely not needed and will only be used by spammers or computer crackers as part of their email 'pitch'.
7) URLs ( http://www.example.com example.com ) - one of the true payloads of spam email--all other content in such email is irrelevant and merely serves as a means to persuade the email recipient to visit the spammer's website(s) mentioned in such email.
8) Email addresses ( user@example.com ) - one of the true payloads of spam email--all other content in such email is irrelevant and merely serves as a means to persuade the email recipient to contact the spammer at the provided email address(es).
The only possible use is against exploits as HTML-mails are converted to plain text. Nice "i can program an email-server"-project but nothing worth to use in daily life.
My mailserver program also does everything possible to prevent spammers from using the SMTP DATA command in the first place and punish them appropriately when they do.
The complete details of this process is available at the bottom of the software's homepage.
SpamAssasin needs a Perl interpreter to run and is not a mailserver.
My mailserver program has simple, effective, built-in email filtering.
Mailservers like Sendmail, Postfix, and qmail are sophisticated and likely consist of 2 or more programs.
My mailserver is a simple, all-in-one, piece of software that was coded for high-performance. All it needs to run is the Windows operating system and a initially empty hard disk subdirectory to 'live' in.
Thread talks about unavailable pdf file, the format's 'all-in-one-file' feature is mentioned, this is compared with multipart MIME (HTML) enhanced email by the grandparent post, then the parent mentions such email as being a spam delivery vehicle (which is all it is nowadays thanks to spammers) and is modded down for it....
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?!
This is proof that spammers do read Slashdot and will mod down any sort of post that talks about spam or offers a solution to the problem!
Business is a war were nobody dies (in principle) but there are many casualties.
Reason is the first thing to go in the pursuit of money in the marketplace.
The money the store owner(s) saved by getting that air conditioner can be used to buy beer to stock the coolers. The beer sold will generate immediate profit now (eaten up by higher utility bills) rather than having to wait later for the energy savings the single rooftop compressor would have brought. Perhaps they couldn't justify paying for the rooftop compressor--doing that might cut into their cashflow so much that they might wind up going out of business as they can't afford to keep the store stocked with merchandise to buy.
targo says after a cheap shot at Slashdot, "...you actually have to open and run the attachment yourself in Outlook in order for it to do anything..."
That used to be the case, then those clever people figured out how to do it so you don't have to click on anything.
evil, evil world...
For maximum safety if you must use Outlook for email is to rename or carefully delete the Windows Scripting Host Program.
As an alternative, you could use my approach to email which is unaffected by any kind of scripting exploit.
Please keep the above in mind while other antispam solutions get coverage on Slashdot and this post is (likely) moderated into oblivion for being an 'ad' and 'just like SpamAssassin'--I tried to offer a clearly effective antispam/antimalware solution to all interested parties....
I've gotten 16000 spams and viruses since *APRIL*. That doesn't count the accounts I've cut off because I was getting nothing but spam.
Then you can delete it all automatically either before or after it gets to your email inbox like I do.
Please keep the above in mind while other antispam solutions get coverage on Slashdot and this post is (likely) moderated into oblivion for being an 'ad' and 'just like SpamAssassin'--I tried to offer a clearly effective antispam/antimalware solution to all interested parties....
I think this problem will just escalate for as long as we have SMTP in use. So maybe SMTP as a protocol needs a rehaul, or a revision to rewrite it completely (and call it something different). I think it wouldn't be impossible to pull off.
Waste of time.
Every month someone suggests that there's a technological solution to this problem. But there isn't. This isn't a tech problem. It's a law-enforcement/sociological problem.
You can only go so far technologically as long as spammers are allowed to compromise peoples' computers and use them for improper activities.
Spammers continue to spam and hijack other people's computers via email to relay their trash and law enforcement does little or nothing unless you are 'big' enough for them to take an interest in your plight.
As an individual email user, I finally got so angry and tired of all the spam, phish attempts, scams, and malware I got by email, I did something about them that made them all go away for good! The only time I ever get spam and (rendered inert) malware now via email is when I have to 'lower my defenses' temporarily for a good reason.
I am trying to share my solution with others here on Slashdot but I am constantly accused of 'advertising' and 'reinventing SpamAssassin'. Yet aren't all the stories posted on Slashdot advertising in the end? The public at large freqenting Slashdot is being told about information, products, and services found noteworthy by the Slashdot editorial staff whether there is a pricetag attached to said information, products, and services or not.
Until the day comes when spammers and scammers finally give up sending out their trash via email (probably never), I will continue to automatically delete it 'on sight' using my approach. Maybe one day, I'll be able to have use of the email mailserver I wrote and then I'll never have to waste time downloading and subsequently deleting this unwanted crap ever again!...
Man, i couldnt if i wanted too.. i get 10mb a day of the crap..
Then you can delete it all automatically either before or after it gets to your email inbox like I do.
Please keep the above in mind while other antispam solutions get coverage on Slashdot and this post is (likely) moderated into oblivion for being an 'ad' and 'just like SpamAssassin'--I tried to offer a clearly effective antispam/antimalware solution to all interested parties....
Unfortunately you can't put the numbers-and-letters email address on resumes, 'cuz then you look like a luser, according to an HR type I interviewed with.
An email address is a point of human contact on the internet. Nothing more--nothing less. To show such bias against the mere spelling of an email address indicates a mindset at work at that particular business I find...totally unacceptable.
Your approach will work if the people you correspond with with using this 'secret' email address DO NOT add it to their email client's address book (likely Outlook/Outlook Express) or save it on the computer they connect to the internet with. If they do, you may fall victim to the 'fallout' of a Mass Mail Virus like I was a while back. I was accused of sending malware to people who were total strangers to me that I *never* emailed at all in the first place.
As for me, I filter out all my spam and malware with software I wrote after much research and thought into the spam/malware problem.
Please keep the above in mind while other antispam solutions get coverage on Slashdot and this post is (likely) moderated into oblivion for being an 'ad' and 'just like SpamAssassin'--I tried to offer a clearly effective antispam/antimalware solution to all interested parties....
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Use lynx/offbyone/opera, maybe those are OK.
Maybe they don't have this exploit present in their JPEG rendering routines....
Deep down inside, I am counting on this to happen.
Then there won't be any reason to buy those bootleg DVD rips of the first laserdisc release of the 'Original Trilogy'.
That comic is funny and insightful.
:(
Too bad one must 'bootleg' to get the original 1977/1980/1983 versions of the first 3 STAR WARS films on DVD (via DVD rips of the first laserdisc release of the films).
Hence all the fuss over the belated release of Id Software's 'Doom III' which is ultimately nothing more than than their 'Castle Wolfenstein' with better graphics, more weapons, and more gore.
As for me, possibly the one 'classic' arcade game I liked the best was TRON. It was pattern-driven like PAC-MAN but there was enough randomness involved to keep the player on his or her toes.
Simply send the URLs to the 'infringing' content to your ISP and the MPAA/RIAA and ask all parties concerned to look at and/or hear the 'infringing' content.
That should be the end of the matter. If not, then send all parties concerned the 'infringing' content with a bill for expenses in sending the 'infringing' content to them via registered mail with return receipt. If you are not reimbursed, then use the 7-step litigation procedure outlined by the parent poster.
Using decoy files will do nothing but waste bandwidth, slow down the internet, and cause the MPAA/RIAA to scream 'Entrapment' while they seek out pirated content from IP addresses not already blacklisted.
The user-selectable ability to 'ignore' the IMG, OBJECT, and APPLET HTML tags and the 'onload' and 'onunload' JavaScript commands in webpages.
By doing this, the pop-up, malware, banner ad-ridden internet just got MUCH nicer to browse through. Just blocking images not on the same 'machine' as the viewed webpage would quash A LOT of bandwidth wasted by banner-ad networks like the (in)famous DoubleClick.
Use a hardware router that filters out *ALL* unsolicited incoming internet connections. This should 'hide' your computer from others while on the internet. In addition, use a software firewall program such as Outpost.
Install an antivirus program such as AVG and keep it constantly up-to-date.
'Harden IE' by disabling ActiveX, Java, and Javascript. No more IE 0wnage!
Delete/rename the Windows Scripting Host. No more 0wnage via VBScript!
By doing all of the above, it should now be safe to use Outlook (Express) to check your email and not get 0wned by some email-based exploit. Be on the lookout for spam (FREE V14gr4!!!), phish (id theft attempts), fraud (Nigerian advanced fee fraud), and malware (the latest Wintel/OE mass-mailing-virus). To avoid running emailed malware by accident, consider using my approach which renders known and unknown emailed malware 'inert' and safe to handle provided the system hasn't been compromised first.
And laws haven't been created to change social habits. Ever heard of the DMCA?
Easily flouted. Just have Americans in America post their DMCA-infringing information anonymously to Usenet or a throwaway/anti-DMCA friendly website/FTP site. Even better is for Non-USA individuals to post such information freely to the web--the DMCA doesn't applay to them as they are not U.S. citizens. However, because of the Berne Convention, copyright infringers may be extradited from one country to another as was the case of that guy from Australia.
"why not use technological means to filter them out for good!"
That's what we're doing. Worked so far? No?
Until now. Unfortunately, my approach makes spam and malware 'almost impossible' NOT 100% impossible.
As long as there is an internet and the people using it crave 'easy money', there will ALLWAYS be spam and (zombie mail relay based) malware.
Nah, I would posit that most gamers are 'seduced' by the graphics of a game and not the playability of the game. That is why I'd rather play the classic videogames from the 'golden era' of gaming (~1978 - ~1985). The graphics were crude by the games were really fun!
Street Fighter II (1991) is probably the pardigm shift away from game playability and more to 'digital eye candy'. This game was both fun to play and had great graphics (for its time). Once it became a rousing success, it opened the floodgates to fighting game sequels and clones. As a result, all the 'classic' games were left by the wayside in favor of 'fighting games, shooting games, driving games, and DDR-style games' with fabulous graphics but with nearly brain-dead game play.... =/
Anyway, to get back on topic I remember years and years and years ago playing a mechanical PONG game made as a self-contained tabletop toy. It was about the size of a 'standard' computer monitor and I think TOMY made it. Does anybody remeber playing this particular 'PONG game'?
And my reply to above post here.
It won't work. there is too much money at stake for the credit card firms to give up 'subsidizing' spam. And even if they all refused to honor spam purchases and stopped setting up new email-based merchants, there is always checks and money orders available to facilitate payment for goods and services promoted by spam.
As has been said elsewhere, spam is a societal issue. Since the hard core spammers won't quit spamming and law enforcement doesn't seem to scare them to stop, and email users by and large don't want to pay extra for the priveledge of using email (it is included in their internet connection agreement), why not use technological means to filter them out for good!
I did this some time ago in the very first version of software I wrote here. I set the method aside for a method that is faster and doesn't depend on spelling.
How does cloudmark.com handle 'hash buster' spam?
These are 'identical' spam messages made 'different' with bits of gibberish added to bypass filters.
But then again, If they are filtering on the 'spamvertized' domains (i.e. spamsite.example.com), cloudmark.com is on to a winning method!
Congratulations!
Frank Horrigan and Lilly Raines and their friends will be around to ask you a few questions shortly, please stand by....
Better save blair1q's post for posterity now before these guys force Slashdot to delete it like the 'assassin' post I can't find and link to at the moment....
Tell that to this guy.
A lot of people died to make sure this story got passed down unchanged to the present day.
All things considered equal, people will not knowingly die for something they know not to be true....
I hear this is being done out in 'resumeland'. That is, the HR personnel get so many resumes for a job opening they simply discard resumes that have spelling errors or other 'minor' problems with them--sounds like another form of intelligence test.
Even 'McJob' applications are an itelligence test--if you are able to fill it out properly and the HR personnel like what they see on it, you 'might' get called in for an interview!...
Seriously,
Why bother with quantum encryption when two parties can use Diffie-Hellman to create and share a secret key. All the eavesdroppers will see is a buncha big numbers shooting about on the wires. For the paranoid, the two parties could conduct some sort of secure passphrase exchange to authenticate themselves before the goodies are exchanged across the secure channel.
Isn't this just as secure and less complicated than quantum encryption?
It still isn't useful against spammers because the filter rules are too simple and too inflexible.
.
The 900+ email scoring rules in SpamAssasin are totally irrelevant and unecessary!
I have identified the 8 hallmarks of spam and malware, everything else in such email doesn't matter as the 8 hallmarks are deemed 'unwanted content' as needed by those that use my software.
1. File attachments - if not from expected sources, it is likely malware--usually the latest mass-mail-virus-to-hit-unsuspecting-Windows-users
2. HTML - a waste of bandwith to send legitimate, plain-text email and a delivery vehicle for spam, phish attempts (ID theft), scams, and malware.
3. Quoted printable content - not needed for 'standard' email. It is used in HTML email and to encode 'incriminating' commerce characters in an attempt to avoid filtering.
4) Percent signs (% - used primarily in commerce and a potentially 'expensive' web browser exploit via HTML)
5) Dollar signs ($ - used primarily in commerce and, to a lesser extent, in assembler source code listings.)
6) Numbers (0123456789) - needed by spammers to create prices, website urls, email addresses, postal addresses, and contact phone numbers. When interacting with first-time correspondents via email, numbers are likely not needed and will only be used by spammers or computer crackers as part of their email 'pitch'.
7) URLs ( http://www.example.com example.com ) - one of the true payloads of spam email--all other content in such email is irrelevant and merely serves as a means to persuade the email recipient to visit the spammer's website(s) mentioned in such email.
8) Email addresses ( user@example.com ) - one of the true payloads of spam email--all other content in such email is irrelevant and merely serves as a means to persuade the email recipient to contact the spammer at the provided email address(es).
The only possible use is against exploits as HTML-mails are converted to plain text. Nice "i can program an email-server"-project but nothing worth to use in daily life.
My mailserver program also does everything possible to prevent spammers from using the SMTP DATA command in the first place and punish them appropriately when they do.
The complete details of this process is available at the bottom of the software's homepage.
SpamAssasin needs a Perl interpreter to run and is not a mailserver.
My mailserver program has simple, effective, built-in email filtering.
Mailservers like Sendmail, Postfix, and qmail are sophisticated and likely consist of 2 or more programs.
My mailserver is a simple, all-in-one, piece of software that was coded for high-performance. All it needs to run is the Windows operating system and a initially empty hard disk subdirectory to 'live' in.
Thread talks about unavailable pdf file, the format's 'all-in-one-file' feature is mentioned, this is compared with multipart MIME (HTML) enhanced email by the grandparent post, then the parent mentions such email as being a spam delivery vehicle (which is all it is nowadays thanks to spammers) and is modded down for it....
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?!
This is proof that spammers do read Slashdot and will mod down any sort of post that talks about spam or offers a solution to the problem!
Business is a war were nobody dies (in principle) but there are many casualties.
Reason is the first thing to go in the pursuit of money in the marketplace.
The money the store owner(s) saved by getting that air conditioner can be used to buy beer to stock the coolers. The beer sold will generate immediate profit now (eaten up by higher utility bills) rather than having to wait later for the energy savings the single rooftop compressor would have brought. Perhaps they couldn't justify paying for the rooftop compressor--doing that might cut into their cashflow so much that they might wind up going out of business as they can't afford to keep the store stocked with merchandise to buy.
For maximum safety if you must use Outlook for email is to rename or carefully delete the Windows Scripting Host Program.
As an alternative, you could use my approach to email which is unaffected by any kind of scripting exploit.
Please keep the above in mind while other antispam solutions get coverage on Slashdot and this post is (likely) moderated into oblivion for being an 'ad' and 'just like SpamAssassin'--I tried to offer a clearly effective antispam/antimalware solution to all interested parties....
Then you can delete it all automatically either before or after it gets to your email inbox like I do.
Please keep the above in mind while other antispam solutions get coverage on Slashdot and this post is (likely) moderated into oblivion for being an 'ad' and 'just like SpamAssassin'--I tried to offer a clearly effective antispam/antimalware solution to all interested parties....
My approach addresses these issues.
Spammers continue to spam and hijack other people's computers via email to relay their trash and law enforcement does little or nothing unless you are 'big' enough for them to take an interest in your plight.
As an individual email user, I finally got so angry and tired of all the spam, phish attempts, scams, and malware I got by email, I did something about them that made them all go away for good! The only time I ever get spam and (rendered inert) malware now via email is when I have to 'lower my defenses' temporarily for a good reason.
I am trying to share my solution with others here on Slashdot but I am constantly accused of 'advertising' and 'reinventing SpamAssassin'. Yet aren't all the stories posted on Slashdot advertising in the end? The public at large freqenting Slashdot is being told about information, products, and services found noteworthy by the Slashdot editorial staff whether there is a pricetag attached to said information, products, and services or not.
Until the day comes when spammers and scammers finally give up sending out their trash via email (probably never), I will continue to automatically delete it 'on sight' using my approach. Maybe one day, I'll be able to have use of the email mailserver I wrote and then I'll never have to waste time downloading and subsequently deleting this unwanted crap ever again!...
Then you can delete it all automatically either before or after it gets to your email inbox like I do.
Please keep the above in mind while other antispam solutions get coverage on Slashdot and this post is (likely) moderated into oblivion for being an 'ad' and 'just like SpamAssassin'--I tried to offer a clearly effective antispam/antimalware solution to all interested parties....
An email address is a point of human contact on the internet. Nothing more--nothing less. To show such bias against the mere spelling of an email address indicates a mindset at work at that particular business I find...totally unacceptable.
Your approach will work if the people you correspond with with using this 'secret' email address DO NOT add it to their email client's address book (likely Outlook/Outlook Express) or save it on the computer they connect to the internet with. If they do, you may fall victim to the 'fallout' of a Mass Mail Virus like I was a while back. I was accused of sending malware to people who were total strangers to me that I *never* emailed at all in the first place.
As for me, I filter out all my spam and malware with software I wrote after much research and thought into the spam/malware problem.
Please keep the above in mind while other antispam solutions get coverage on Slashdot and this post is (likely) moderated into oblivion for being an 'ad' and 'just like SpamAssassin'--I tried to offer a clearly effective antispam/antimalware solution to all interested parties....