>> Can you suggest a similiar method for e-mail? Thus far, no >> spammer has appeared to be willing to change their methodology >> to make it easier for us to filter their messages. > > Filtering spam doesn't even begin to address the real problem with > spam. Unless spam is prevented from even arriving at the > destination, nothing has been accomplished.
There are several main costs to the recipient of spam. First is the physical cost (bandwidth, disk space, cpu time, etc.) Filtering doesn't help much with that. Second is the time of the recipient. Filtering helps a lot with that. Third is the collateral damage (loss of wanted email). Filtering can increase (false positives) or decrease (by causing people not to give up on email entirely) that. Seth _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
