You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Dear Google:

Welcome to the "Impossible to do anything right" club.

Regards,

Wal-Mart,
Microsoft,
G. W. Bush

In order to prevent SPAMbots once and for all, you should require that everyone interested in contacting you first drive to the next geohash http://www.wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page [xkcd.com] in the region of your choosing, wearing a lumberjack outfit and carrying a case of jolt cola.

Then, and only then, does the read quest begin...
-Taylor

>The wikipedia page also links to munge - modify until not guessed easily -
> which I guess is what the original person intended

Then the original poster is a chimp and so are you. If you aren't aware that adding ~e may change the meaning of a word, I should come round and rap your ears.

My... GOD... that's genius! Your plan clearly has no flaws. We should implement it right now.

OK, honestly, I was just too lazy to fill out the ubiquitous rejection form.

Then the original poster is a chimp and so are you. If you aren't aware that adding ~e may change the meaning of a word, I should come round and rape your ears.

You're right, just one 'e' and the whole thing changes.

Yoeu're reight, juest onee 'e'e ande thee whoele tehing chaenges.

Well, here you go:
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Your post advocates a

( ) technical ( ) legislative (*) market-based ( ) vigilante

approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)

( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(*) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(*) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(*) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business

Specifically, your plan fails to account for

( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook

and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
(*) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough

Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

(*) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!

I dunno. Lining up works. After all, there's likely a large number of people who'd say that. You'd hardly want them all running amok.

And if you double it:

I should come round and rape your arse

You munged it; you can't un-mung it!

Stay tuned for more... Tales! Of! Internet!

I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!

Oh yeah, I'll tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
Don't wanna get no spam
Don't wanna get no spay-ya-yaam
Don't wanna get no spam

Oh, please, say to me
You'll let my addy be
and please, say to me

You'll let me have no spam
Now let me have no spay-ya-yaam
Don't wanna get no spam

And when it's mungey i feel happy, inside
But when you de-munge
from script code
it can't hide
it can't hide
it can't hide

Yeah you, fucking Google
I thought you'd understand
When I say that something
don't wanna get no spam
don't wanna get no spay-ya-yaam
don't wanna get no spam ...

This, of course, is the traditional spelling/grammar flame typo. I think it's a law of nature.