Wow! Another Bluefrog wannabe dead in the water. How many projects are going to be created claiming to fight spam and then do nothing? I guess no one will ever be able to do what the frog did.
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I figure eventually one of these projects will get enough code together to get a rolling start.
It's a tricky business, because BlueSecurity's demise wasn't a pretty thing, and no one really wants to paint a target on themselves like that. On the other hand, the fact that these projects pop up at all are a sign that people want to do something about it... it's just not an easy nut to crack.
I wouldn't write off the project as "dead", anyway. These things feed on free time, and lacking that, they can be on hold indefinitely without "dying". These developers may well dedicate a week of vacation time to intensive hacking and set it on its feet... 2 year from now. Who knows.
I wrote a Thunderbird plugin to support knujon.com's approach to fighting spam (about the closest I've found to the BlueFrog approach, but without the distributed form-filling thing, more of a focus on automating contacting hosts and law enforcement...): http://secondwheel.googlepages.com
...and most of the time, I have no time for it. Every 8 months or so, it benefits from an intense burst of hacking when my normal professional life gets slow.
Anyone else got little projects they're working on?
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Wow! Another Bluefrog wannabe dead in the water. How many projects are going to be created claiming to fight spam and then do nothing? I guess no one will ever be able to do what the frog did.
I figure eventually one of these projects will get enough code together to get a rolling start.
It's a tricky business, because BlueSecurity's demise wasn't a pretty thing, and no one really wants to paint a target on themselves like that. On the other hand, the fact that these projects pop up at all are a sign that people want to do something about it... it's just not an easy nut to crack.
I wouldn't write off the project as "dead", anyway. These things feed on free time, and lacking that, they can be on hold indefinitely without "dying". These developers may well dedicate a week of vacation time to intensive hacking and set it on its feet... 2 year from now. Who knows.
I wrote a Thunderbird plugin to support knujon.com's approach to fighting spam (about the closest I've found to the BlueFrog approach, but without the distributed form-filling thing, more of a focus on automating contacting hosts and law enforcement...):
http://secondwheel.googlepages.com
...and most of the time, I have no time for it. Every 8 months or so, it benefits from an intense burst of hacking when my normal professional life gets slow.
Anyone else got little projects they're working on?