Re: [Crm114-general] Are we having an effect?

[Eric S. J. <es...@ha...>]

Jason Aycock explained:

> Paul Graham had a nice update last month
> (http://www.paulgraham.com/paulgraham/sofar.html) that talked about the
> effects of spammers trying more good tokens and fewer bad ones. He's very good
> about listing examples; one of this technique is at
> http://paulgraham.com/lib/paulgraham/bush.txt.

this kind of behavior is obvious to anyone who is paid attention to the 
development of antibiotic resistance or any other prey/predator relationship. 
All filters do is breed better spammers.  This is why you have people like me 
going after sender pays and others after authentication systems for servers and 
end-users.  Unfortunately, these are also evolutionary processes and I think 
it's going to take serious broad-spectrum, "nuke them till they glow" DDT action 
before we can get the most of them.  Unfortunately, this will still leave the 
cockroaches of the spam world.

so, we will always have a need for crm114...unfortunately

---eric