Re: Some ideas on stopping spam
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
But I don't think the worst ones are hard to find. There's been numerous reports about them in the last few years.
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You're right, a lot of spammers have been publicized recently. Of course the smaller ones haven't been publicized, but since they say 90% of spam is sent by about 200 people, we wouldn't have to find that many people. So I agree.
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It is, but not easy. You'll have to use things like digital signatures to ensure the destination is legitimate. This is an active area of research, but no one has been able to solve the "but it'll be hard" problem.
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It does show promise, though.
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I agree with you, though, in the labor-intensive solution. While we can do this, we shouldn't have to.
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MailShell actually isn't that bad, but I agree that you shouldn't have to use it at all...
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