tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post7967323019948336198..comments2024-03-28T09:19:27.451+00:00Comments on RevK<sup>®</sup>'s ramblings: Spam court caseRevKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-78565864738409134442013-10-11T10:44:45.110+01:002013-10-11T10:44:45.110+01:00It is on companies house, so not secret.It is on companies house, so not secret.RevKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-79852902630186358302013-10-11T10:19:34.743+01:002013-10-11T10:19:34.743+01:00Is it wise publishing your home address on your bl...Is it wise publishing your home address on your blog? You might get a stalker, or worse, someone who wants you to fix their computer...Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10021621329177687470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-21568881131015889542013-10-09T20:34:12.418+01:002013-10-09T20:34:12.418+01:00Too helpful, this is a spammer after all.Too helpful, this is a spammer after all.RevKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-78513171731127380912013-10-09T20:19:35.492+01:002013-10-09T20:19:35.492+01:00Adrian, I live not far from Dorchester. I could ha...Adrian, I live not far from Dorchester. I could hand-deliver these documents one evening in the week if that'd help. Only downside is it'd be around 19:00<br /><br />Weekend delivery is also an option.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05369848771690461791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-85084370780097213532013-10-09T19:57:56.762+01:002013-10-09T19:57:56.762+01:00Your post advocates a
( ) technical (x) legislati...Your post advocates a<br /><br />( ) technical (x) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante<br /><br />approach to fighting spam. Your idea will hopefully work. <br /><br />Here is why might work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea)<br /><br />( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses<br />( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected<br />(X) We should be able to find the guy and collect the money.<br />( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks<br />( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it<br />( ) Users of email will not put up with it<br />( ) Microsoft will not put up with it<br />( ) The police will not put up with it<br />( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers<br />( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once<br />( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers<br />( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists<br />( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business<br /><br />Specifically, your plan hopefully accounts for<br /><br />( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it<br />( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email<br />( ) Open relays in foreign countries<br />( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses<br />(X) Asshats<br />() Jurisdictional problems<br />( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes<br />( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money<br />( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP<br />( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack<br />( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email<br />( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes<br />( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches<br />( ) Extreme profitability of spam<br />( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft<br />( ) Technically illiterate politicians<br />( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers<br />(X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves<br />( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering<br />( ) Outlook<br /><br />and the following philosophical objections may also apply:<br /><br />( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever<br />been shown practical<br />( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable<br />( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation<br />( ) Blacklists suck<br />( ) Whitelists suck<br />( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored<br />( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud<br />( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks<br />( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually<br />( ) Sending email should be free<br />( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?<br />( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses<br />( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem<br />( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome<br />( ) I don't want the government reading my email<br />(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough<br /><br />Furthermore, this is what I think about you:<br /><br />(X) Go for it dude! :)<br />( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.<br />( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.<br />( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your<br />house down!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15717592062414307952noreply@blogger.com