Wave of the Future (Spam)

From: Vance Dereksen <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Jun 21 13:03:48 2001

Responses Inline:
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> Approaches such as limiting the number of addressees would kill mailing
> lists with little or no effect on spammers.

There are ways around this problem.

> Approaches such as billing for number of outgoing items won't work without
> cooperation from spammers (yeah, right.)

Agreed.

> How many spammers need to turn up dead to serve as a deterrent to those
> conteplating doing it?

Lots. The one constant in the universe is idiocy.

> How many spammers need to turn up dead to reduce their population to a
> managable level?

Lots. There are THAT many spammers.

Peace... Sridhar
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