[Dev-C++] We Can Overcome Spam As Programmers

[Alfred P. R. <al...@ya...>]

There's a very interesting solution being used in Europe against spammers.  It's a software application that periodically pings the offending ISP.  One recipient doing it is no problem.  However, once an ISP is known as a spam source, it gets pinged by a LOT of recipients.  The site bandwidth will bottom out at about 5%, which is what the application is set to do.
 
See http://www.spamhaus.org/index.lasso 
 
Also hunt up Lycos Europe Antispam tools for some neat ideas.  Hey, we're programmers here.  Can't we come up with a neat legal solution that is both efficacious and puts the ball back in the spammers court?
 
See http://news.com.com/Lycos+Europes+antispam+tool+no+longer+available/2100-7349_3-5476451.html
 

Mat...@Ve... wrote:
As always happens, once we make a system sufficiently widespread to be
useful, spammers will find a way to compromise it. The Yahoo System and SPF
do not do much about the business of shoddy / scumbag spam-supporting ISPs,
from whence the majority of the spam is sent. The shoddy ISPs will continue
to proliferate with their countless new domain names and IP addresses for
servers. They will sign their DNS / add DNS records as needed to allow them
to continue profiting from others' bad behvavior. Therefore I think they
will be more or less useless. Technical costs will never stop spam because
it's too simple to circumvent them. The only way to stop spam would have to
generate some kind of substantial economic cost. These systems are like
every other anti-spam system ever devised. They increase the complexity of
sending and receiving normal everyday mail while doing essentially nothing
to spam.
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Alfred P. Reaud