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Re: Unbelievable Spam.
From: Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:40:10 -0800 (PST)
On 2 Feb 2004, Paul Vixie wrote:
the spammers have nothing to fear from you, or us, or me, or anybody. with the incredible number of bottomfeeders and antivirus companies polluting the econsystem with their own various get-rich-quick schemes, there's no way to tell the difference between good and bad traffic, good and bad intent, good and bad providers, etc. the spam/antispam battleground is all just mud now.
Everyone should be glad for the Internet making all of us feel like rich and famous. A lot more people want our attention (and money) than we wish to deal with. And this is not only the spam problem - the technology-related privacy and identity issues are merely the other side of the same phenomenon - the rich & famous had to fight with gossips, paparazzi and various con artists for as long as there were money, power and fame. And because rich and famous had this problem for a long, long time, they managed to devise some solutions. So everything we do about "cyberage" problems like spam is going to be some automation of those old solutions. Call me elitist, or old-worlder, but my preferred way of dealing with it is "choose who you are associating with". Introductions. In newspeak - whitelists. --vadim
Current thread:
- Unbelievable Spam. Ejay Hire (Feb 02)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Jeff Shultz (Feb 02)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Richard Welty (Feb 02)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Roland Perry (Feb 02)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Paul Vixie (Feb 02)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Vadim Antonov (Feb 02)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Brian Bruns (Feb 02)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Vadim Antonov (Feb 02)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Bill Thompson (Feb 02)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Michael . Dillon (Feb 03)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Alexei Roudnev (Feb 03)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. vijay gill (Feb 03)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Alexander Bochmann (Feb 03)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Tom (UnitedLayer) (Feb 03)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 03)
- Re: Unbelievable Spam. Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 03)