On Fri, July 13, 2007 9:38 am, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:30 +0800, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: >> On Friday 13 July 2007 14:07, Richard Lynch wrote: >> >> > I'd give a lot of money to be able to teleport back in time and >> yell >> > at the email designer folks to tell them just how horrible a mess >> they >> > were making... :-) >> >> But you have to give them credit for designing something so >> scaleable that >> even decades later it is still able to cope with the billions of >> spam. On >> the other hand if it weren't so scaleable it might have forced some >> drastic changes much earlier to curtail spam. Something like this: >> >> http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html >> >> in which the sender is responsible for storing the mail until the >> intended >> recipient retrieves it seems like a good start. > > Bleh, that's so easily solvable for spammers. Create one real message, > then softllink it for every actual email they send out. Millions of > links are cheap. > > Of course, that sort of presumes they use their own computers :) It won't reduce the number of "spams" being sent, but at least they'll be a lot smaller, with only a couple headers... Plus, any rampant spammer can be tracked down to their hard drive, and action can be taken, or their URLs can just be blocked by proxies to end traffic to them. It won't eliminate, or even reduce spam, most likely, but it oughta reduce the harm done by spam. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
