new to list ... wanted to propose and get feedback on a spam tactic It proposes a way to filter out spam and a way to make spamming cost prohibitive.
Suppose one were to create N=100 fictitious email addresses for each valid email address that they have, and then offer them up to the world of spammers. Mail arriving at those addresses is considered spam. Mail arriving at the valid address is filtered by crosschecking it with the fictitious accounts. N could be any number, of course. Whatever it is, it would be a cost factor for spammers. If the approach succeeded in making spam cost prohibitive, then our cost would only be the "up front cost" for the first year or two. Surely this is not a new idea, but I cannot see any fault. Even if it failed to rid the world of spam, lol, it still seems to provide an effective filter. And in that case, sharing fictitious addresses would bring down our costs. Mike -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
