On 17Jun2007 14:05, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:00:54 -0500 | Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > Bob Nichols Yes, "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. | | Now that's a first for me. And a rather clever idea indeed. It's a hideous idea. Email should just work. EVery stupid hack like this makes that harder for everyone. | The best one I've seen previously was setting your email address in newsgroups | to abuse@xxxxxxxxxxx, so the spammers would file their own complaints. Your | idea is just as cute as that. Hmm, no, it's not as awful as that. That swamps the abuse@ addresses with crap, preventing them being used for genuine reports of trouble. Really clever - actively working to break a trouble reporting system. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ One of the biggest obstacles to the future of computing is C. C is the last attempt of the high priesthood to control the computing business. It's like the scribes and the Pharisees who did not want the masses to learn to read and write. - Jerry Pournelle
