Is there a technical solution to SPAM?

Matthew S. Hallacy poptix at techmonkeys.org
Wed Jul 30 10:30:40 UTC 2003


On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:24:29PM +0100, Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:
> 
> Anyone who believes that SPAM can be solved by technical means should try 
> googling one of the following:
> 
> sms spam
> i-mode spam
> IM spam
> 

[snip]

AOL Instant Messenger has a 'warn' function, I wrote a nifty little plugin
for GAIM (A multi-IM-client available for various platforms) that simply
drops messages from unknown people with a warning level >10%.

If only everything else had a 'warn' function. (Although, to a degree razor
serves this purpose along with a whitelist in spamassassin)

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Matthew S. Hallacy                            FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified
http://www.poptix.net                           GPG public key 0x01938203



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