Spam and the Law Conference Report 145
Cowards Anonymous writes "The Guardian has a story about a spam and law conference, recently held by the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, in San Francisco.
The conferences are usually attended by anti-spammers, from the major ISPs, and spammers; and are an attempt to bring the two sides together. The article's author notes 'It's oddly intimate, watching the spammers and the anti-spammers mill around each other like this. It feels like a temporary ceasefire in a vicious war that to most of us seems to be a stalemate.'
Also in attendance was infamous spammer Scott Richter, or 'high volume email deployer' as he wished to be called on his recent Daily Show appearance. Surprisingly the anti-spammers didn't tear Richter to pieces with their bare hands."
How to avoid spam. (Score:1, Informative)
-> only give this to real people
2) Have a shopping adress for websites who ask for it when you buy shit
3) Have a registration email for websites you sign up to like slashdot.
2 and 3 will get spammed to hell but you wont miss anything important if you redirect them to
The one for friends wont get spammed.
Re:What i do with spam (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What i do with spam (Score:3, Informative)
No you don't. You don't know the address that sent your spams.
All you can do is reply to some forged address that the spammer wants you to think the email is from.
Bittorrent of Daily Show Stuffs (Score:5, Informative)
Re:How to avoid spam. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Jesus Christ People. (Score:5, Informative)
Oh, and your estimates of the waste of energy involved in spam are off by several orders of magnitude. Back of envelope calculations based on incoming mail volume, power consumption (which I've measured), and cluster size has 100,000 emails per day costing at least 10KWhr, and that's just on the receiving mail server cluster (it would be lower without redundancy, of course). Once you add in the sender and all intermediate hops I wouldn't be surprised if that figure doubled. And that's just the beginning; of all network services we run, email is by far the greatest suck of money, brains, and time.
Before you claim free speech in defense of spam again, perhaps you should spend some quality time with systems and network engineers, and see how un-free this "free speech" really is. I'd be glad to do so myself over the telephone ... I assume given your argument you do take collect calls from everyone, right?
Re:What i do with spam (Score:3, Informative)