[TriLUG] Another seal broken... thinking of installing a C/R anti-spam system

[Alan Porter]

> Unfortunately, the only way to address spam is to make it unprofitable:
>   

I have been wondering whether we're spending too much effort on the 
delivery side of the equation, and not enough time on the 
money-changing-hands part of the equation.

For example, if I had a 'bot that replied to every spam message that it 
got, filling in phishing web forms with bogus names, SSN's, credit card 
numbers, etc; then maybe it would cost the spammers more in terms of 
time to filter through the junk in order to get the real suckers' info.

Basically, by drowning them in noise, we'd be giving them a taste of 
their own medicine.

Another example I recall that raises the price of spam is the case where 
someone published a spammer's home address on the internet, and suddenly 
the guy was being harassed from every angle.

Alan




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