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Spam Wars Make Strange Bedfellows
Jon Lasser, 2003-03-05

The open-source community is closer than ever to curing the spam problem, but they'll have to hold their noses and help out Windows users to get there.

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So far you are all chasing a problem that will never be solved. Take a look at the "I Cringly" column http://www.pbs.org/cringely/

The title to read is "For a Nickel I Will"

This is a much more elegant way to solve the problem. You will never stop all Spam, But this way at lease the spammer will have to pay for each unsolicited email. Very quickly it will slow to a trickle.....

Email is like the Postal service. You cannot force the postal service to stop sending unsolicited snail mail to you. So should you also not be able to stop unsolicited email to you.

But it should have a cost to the spammer in the same manner it costs the local safeway of food store to send you flyers.... and the wrinkle Cringly puts on it might actually profit you personally.

Mike Stephen



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