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food4thought
I agree, shoot the spammers
posted by
WileyJohn
on February 5, 2007 at 3:49 PM
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HI Fooddude :) I agree...spam is beyond reprehensible
Makes Me Crazy! The internet is so cool, and like everything, I guess it has to have its' flaws as well...
posted by
mysteria
on February 5, 2007 at 12:08 PM
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LOL.. you are so right!!!!
posted by
Blue_feathers
on February 5, 2007 at 4:06 AM
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Soft viagra
Now that is a contradiction of note. Is this the tablet one takes after viagra to wear of the effect
posted by
Tanga
on February 4, 2007 at 11:46 PM
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Interesting read .
posted by
afzal50
on February 4, 2007 at 11:23 PM
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Have you tried the Viking SPAM solution?
SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM....
Seriously, though, the problem is the sendmail protocol. This has been painfully obvious since the Morris worm, for which the legislative reponse was to change the word "hack" from a term of low-level coding inventiveness to one of a criminally indictable offense.
Sendmail is one gigantic, gaping security hole! It will never be fixed. It can only be replaced by something that achieves three objectives which sendmail does not:
1. Security in communications, particularly through encryption;
2. Authentication of senders as well as recipients; and
3. Permissioned channels of communication.
The band aid applied by the likes of gmail pertain only to the weak version of objective 3 that applies when objective 2 is not met. That is, you can not enforce permissioning when you have no idea who is asking permission. SPAM filters address none of these and try to clean up the mess afterward throwing out the babies with the bath water. The SPAM vigilantes arrest the babies instead.
Carl Peter
posted by
cpklapper
on February 4, 2007 at 9:14 PM
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