Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

> Well, I'll differ with you here.  The only -- and I mean the *only* --
> thing that I've seen which stops spammers (as opposed to merely stopping
> spam, which anyone who can follow a simple cookbook can do) -- is the
> refusal to grant privileges to known abusers.

Do we know what Postini and Google are doing?  If not, do we really
have any idea what works?

If not, can't we just say "We don't know what works, obviously
something does but we don't know what it is?"

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