On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Eric Murray wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 10:44:04PM +0800, cypherstar wrote: > > > > spam is bad, lots of spam is still just bad. > > > > censorship is a huge and frightening mistake. > > > > this list has real power precisely because it is completely > > uncensored. so, we get spammed. that does not detract from its > > power, it is the price of it. kill the spam, lose the power that > > comes from an uncensored forum. > > > The idea is to figure out a technical means to reduce the spam > without censoring or moderating the list in any way. > > The list won't have any power when it's 90% spam because few people will > read it. Even now, I'd guess that most of the technically sophisticated > list members who remain are already filtering the list in some way. > The trick is to poison the biomass the spammers are feeding off of. Create bogus email addresses, poison their address list and then use those addresses as 'radioactive tags' to throw away spam mail. The only way they still exist is because one in ten-thousand of their damn emails is answered. As soon as we kill their marginal profitability they will go away like a bad dream. They operate by vacuuming vast numbers of email addresses. Lets kill their system. Now someone go out and code the damn thing... Shouldn't be too hard. ;-) jim
