Re: [anti-spam-wg@localhost] Solution to Spam

[Walter Ian Kaye <]

At 11:50a +0200 06/26/2003, Martin Neitzel didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

>  > It's nice if hotmail is implementing this and not accepting e-mail from
>  > the rest of the world anymore.  NO SPAM.
>
> Well, as long as MSN forces footers such as the following:
>
>  > _________________________________________________________________
>  > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*
>  > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
>
> onto its users, they are still a far cry away from preventing spam.
>
> 						SCNR, Martin Neitzel
Quite true, quite true. Even before your message, I was going to 
remark that those MS Hotmail footers are, in fact, spam. Minimalist, 
but still spam.

I also consider any HTML mail as tantamount to spam, because it is 
Unsolicited Bulk [in] Email. (That, plus 99.9% of it comes from 
spammers.) Any vendor who sends me HTML mail loses my business 
forever. Instant permanent boycott.

As to the challenge/response using graphics, Network Solutions just 
added that crap to their whois database. So I gave it a few seconds 
of thought and wrote to them suggesting a mathematical word problem; 
it would require real artificial intelligence for a machine to do the 
math, and any spammer capable of such programming should be winning a 
Nobel prize.

-Walter
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