http://www.thetalentshow.org/2004/06/21/how-can-we-stop-spam/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:04:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.thetalentshow.org/2004/06/21/how-can-we-stop-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-2993 Joe Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:51:23 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=1046#comment-2993 To speak up for Right Libertarians out there, perhaps charging $0.01 cents an email, or even less, would clear up the problem pretty quickly... To speak up for Right Libertarians out there, perhaps charging $0.01 cents an email, or even less, would clear up the problem pretty quickly…

]]> http://www.thetalentshow.org/2004/06/21/how-can-we-stop-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-2992 Joshie Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:59:38 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=1046#comment-2992 Our buddy and old coworker egrep offered an interesting solution on his <a href="http://www.pirk.com/archives/000090.html" rel="nofollow">blog</a>. Microsoft could also add prevention measures into their products as well so that you had to manually confirm that you wanted an installed piece of software to listen to any port - since most people have no need to run any kind of server. Most spam is being sent because of spammers exploiting the openess of the Internet and the vulnerability of Windows based computers. This problem will be attacked where it is most effective once the ISPs and Microsoft realize how much money they will save by stopping this issue. Legislating the Internet has never proven effective and I am not sure why it would start now. After all, spammers are already required by law to let you you know in the subject line that they are sending you and advertisement...so many of them follow that. Our buddy and old coworker egrep offered an interesting solution on his blog. Microsoft could also add prevention measures into their products as well so that you had to manually confirm that you wanted an installed piece of software to listen to any port – since most people have no need to run any kind of server. Most spam is being sent because of spammers exploiting the openess of the Internet and the vulnerability of Windows based computers. This problem will be attacked where it is most effective once the ISPs and Microsoft realize how much money they will save by stopping this issue. Legislating the Internet has never proven effective and I am not sure why it would start now. After all, spammers are already required by law to let you you know in the subject line that they are sending you and advertisement…so many of them follow that.

]]> http://www.thetalentshow.org/2004/06/21/how-can-we-stop-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-2991 Amanda Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:08:07 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=1046#comment-2991 Without spam to delete, I have one less way to look busy at work. It's not always a bad thing. Without spam to delete, I have one less way to look busy at work. It’s not always a bad thing.

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