[thechat] Haiku'da Been a Spam Filter

Ben Dyer ben_dyer at imaginuity.com
Wed Aug 21 09:41:01 CDT 2002


At 02:06 AM 8/21/2002, you wrote:
>http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54645,00.html
>
> From the "will *this* one finally stop spam" department:

Cory Doctorow had the best take on it.

<http://boingboing.net/2002_08_01_archive.html#85363253>

Basically, he says, what so many spammers are doing is already illegal that
there's probably no chance of catching them and suing them.  Additionally,
if you blackhole IP ranges, it's no better of a system than ORBS or MAPS.

--Ben


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