Blocking mail from bad places

Thu Apr 5 08:01:39 UTC 2007

--- black at csulb.edu wrote:----------------------
  Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:18:36 PDT, Scott Weeks said:
>> What I meant was: when only a few folks use email, the spammers will go 
>>away.
> 
> They won't go away, they'll just go infest whatever the people are using.
:
: MySpace and blog spamming can be cured instantly 
: if users required all public posts to be moderated 
: rather than automatically accepted.
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I have to agree with Valdis.  My post was incomplete, though the analogy still stands.  When I said spammers will go away, I should've said the 'email spammers' will go away.  Just like parasites on a dead animal body, the spammers won't go away.  They'll just find another live body and kill it. ad infinitum.  

It's not a technology issue.  It's not a political issue.  It's a biological issue.  Parasites kill until there's nothing left to kill.  I wonder if spammers and cheats think of themselves that way?  Rhetorical question...not a troll.

scott