Antonio Gallardo wrote:
I just hope soon the spam problem will find a final solution.
The final solution is to render it obviously ineffective and this battle is done on your end.
Why do you think google gives you a Gb-worth of storage? so that you don't delete anything.
Why that? have way more subsymbolic semantic data to train their networks, so that not only they can be the best search engine, but also the best spam filter in the world.
I've been doing this myself for more than a year now and I could not imagine a world without this, it would be impossible for me to find a single email in the pile of shit I receive.
The hope is not that spammers will go away, but that those who *pay* them for spamming will find the thing so ineffective that will put them out of business.
And you win this battle only with with better content-based filters, not obfuscation, nor whitelists, nor blacklists.
Or you make sending email more expensive or you have authorities regulating digital identies. But those might create more problems than they solve.
What we need is a web of distributed identity control.
But that's the hardest thing in the history of technology applied to society.
Luckily Apache hosts a few people that have been working extensively in the area... so well, something might turn out from that too.
For now, I just filter the hell out of them ;-)
-- Stefano.
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