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xavier Mar 19th, 2006 2:18 AM

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:

ReggaetonKing Mar 19th, 2006 8:06 AM

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

Ooble Mar 19th, 2006 8:55 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 9:25 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 1:47 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.


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