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xavier · Mar 19th, 2006, 1:18 AM

http://www.bluesecurity.com/blue-fro...lt.asp?flash=1

Check out the site. It sais it will at least diminish the number of spam you get. Might be interesting :banana:

ReggaetonKing · Mar 19th, 2006, 7:06 AM

very interesting...its open source too. I'm going to read more about it before I download it tho.

Ooble · Mar 19th, 2006, 7:55 AM

It won't work. Sure, you might be able to force US companies to stop sending spam to a list of email addresses, but good luck persuading the Chinese to do the same thing.

InfoGeek · Mar 19th, 2006, 8:25 AM

It may be counter productive. They say they will give the e-mail addresses to the spammers and tell them not to send any spam. Spammer will get more e-mail addresses that way. You may receive more spam. That's just my thinking.

grumpy · Mar 20th, 2006, 12:47 AM

Indeed. Validated email addresses (i.e. addresses that are KNOWN to have a person reading them) are as precious as gold to spammers and (just as significantly) to the people who build a database of addresses for them.

That's one reason that one of the rules of combatting spam is to NEVER respond to a spam email. The act of asking to be removed from a mailing list is telling the spammer that your address is one that will be read by a human.

Mar 19th, 2006, 1:18 AM	#1
xavier Professional Programmer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: .ro Posts: 381 Rep Power: 4	Free of spam ? http://www.bluesecurity.com/blue-fro...lt.asp?flash=1 Check out the site. It sais it will at least diminish the number of spam you get. Might be interesting :banana: __________________ Don't take life too seriously, it's not permanent !

Mar 19th, 2006, 7:06 AM	#2
ReggaetonKing Sexy Programmer Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New Jersey Posts: 891 Rep Power: 3	very interesting...its open source too. I'm going to read more about it before I download it tho. __________________ I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code!

Mar 19th, 2006, 7:55 AM	#3
Ooble I eat cake for breakfast. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In my box. Posts: 4,434 Rep Power: 9	It won't work. Sure, you might be able to force US companies to stop sending spam to a list of email addresses, but good luck persuading the Chinese to do the same thing. __________________ Me :: You :: Them

Mar 19th, 2006, 8:25 AM	#4
InfoGeek Professional Programmer Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: India, The great. Posts: 435 Rep Power: 4	It may be counter productive. They say they will give the e-mail addresses to the spammers and tell them not to send any spam. Spammer will get more e-mail addresses that way. You may receive more spam. That's just my thinking. __________________ PFO - My daily dose of technology.

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Mar 20th, 2006, 12:47 AM	#5
grumpy Programming Guru Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 1,209 Rep Power: 5	Indeed. Validated email addresses (i.e. addresses that are KNOWN to have a person reading them) are as precious as gold to spammers and (just as significantly) to the people who build a database of addresses for them. That's one reason that one of the rules of combatting spam is to NEVER respond to a spam email. The act of asking to be removed from a mailing list is telling the spammer that your address is one that will be read by a human.

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