As mentioned below, we're having a boat-load of fun with a spammer spoofing our domain.

When are we as an Internet community going to get sick of spam to the point where we completely redo the way email works?

I don't see this being to far out. Spam is increasing at an amazing rate. Somehow my personal email address which I have religiously protected from spam for years has fallen victim. I now get about 10 junk mails a day for various drugs. (90% of which I've never heard of...)

What are the options out there? Who has the best plan to kill the spam situation once and for all? Does anyone think it's possible to kill spam without an overhaul of the current system?

Personally the quicker it happens - by "it" I mean a complete overhaul - the happier I'll be. I despise spam. I also despise the fact that it actually works. Obviously there would be nobody spamming if it wasn't lucrative.

Ah well, back to filtering all this crap from our various systems while dreaming of a better email era to come. :)

 Posted by brian at 04:43 PM | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)
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If ISP's would take note of 1000 emails an hour maybe we'd get somewhere. I'd like to see more people using PGP... that way private email can be secure and spam free.

Posted by: Jon on May 19, 2003 6:08 PM

http://www.cdt.org/spam/

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Posted by: David on May 19, 2003 7:30 PM

SpamAssassin ROCKS. www.spamassassin.org.

Posted by: Ken on May 19, 2003 11:25 PM

True, SpamAssassin does rock, we use it currently. But it is just a big bandaid for the spam problem. What I wish for is the cure rather than the pain reliever stuff ;)

Posted by: brian on May 20, 2003 12:24 AM

Yeah, Brian, you are right. Well let's hope at least that the US government gets its way with this proposed bill against spam. I've been following it on TechTV.

Posted by: Ken on May 20, 2003 8:56 AM

I knew that spammer were fast, but I've just put out a webpage last friday with only an address in ASCII entity and I already got a spam today !! They are getting faster and faster !!

And I though the ASCII would stop them a little bit... :-(

Posted by: Stephane on May 21, 2003 12:35 AM