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Re: Now Is the Time to Finally Kill Spam - A Call to Action
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (martin f krafft)
Mon Oct 13 15:39:28 2003
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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:27:36 +0200
From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
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also sprach R. A. Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> [2003.10.13.0639 +0200]:
> The time to stop this nonsense is now, and there's a non-governmental,
> low-cost, low-effort way it could happen. Here's my plan of action, it's
> not original to me but I want to lay it out publicly as a battle plan:
Of course the plan is good, and I am all for it. But it won't be
carried in less than 10 years.
I am much in favour of Graham's "fight back" approach, which is to
simply "visit" webpage URLs in all emails automatically. This will
drown spammer websites in requests and should make spam a lot less
worthy.
Who has been working with this system already? Are there reference
implementations?
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martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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"oh what a tangled web we weave,
when first we practice to deceive."
-- shakespeare
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