[NCLUG] Re: mmmmmmm...spam control

[Daniel Miles]

I have an interesting theory that's going to seem off topic 'till you finish with my little ranting... It's not important so if you don't care, don't read it.

I'm taking a course right now on systems networking from the business dept (CIS) and i've got a prof who is a profoundly evil man named Stephen Hayne; he opperates under the idea that if an idea makes money it was a good one.

So he spent about 45 minutes in a class that I'm paying for praising MS business tactics for being so clever and making so much money. To my experaince there are a lot of people in the business college (I'm mostly talking about staff here) and in the business world in general who think that way (if it makes money it's good) and I think that even if innocent, well meaning kids take too many classes from the business dept at CSU they will become corrupted and end up thinking that way.

The solution to SPAM? Convince universities worldwide to drop their business programs!



Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:36:35 -0700 (MST)
Mike Loseke <mike at verinet.com> wrote:

> Thus spake rosing at peakfive.com:
> > 
> > White lists would be bad for people running a business.  But what
> > about mailers that are "spam aware"?  Something with a white, black,
> > and gray list.  Anything from a known friend comes through.  Anything
> > from a known spammer gets tossed. Everything else goes into a neural
> > net that makes suggestions for you and learns, based on your
> > response.  So, the phrase "penis enlargement" would quickly get
> > tagged.  Oh well, but then people that try and build these things
> > (anti-spam sw) could never really talk to each other.  For example,
> > this message would get nuked. oh well, not a great loss.
> 
>  Another tactic I've seen recently is to intentionally mis-spell some words
> in the subject in what I would assume to be an attempt to get by some of
> the filters currently in use.
> 
>  At one point I was running some procmail filters in an attempt to dispose
> of some spam. While it did work to some extent I didn't completely trust it
> to just delete it, so it instead dropped what was assumed to be spam into a
> spam mailbox which I would check from time to time to make sure something I
> didn't want to delete didn't get caught in there. I eventually stopped
> doing this because of the constant editing of .procmail recipes.
> 
> -- 
>    Mike Loseke    | One is never deceived, one deceives oneself.
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