Spammers will wreck everything...
...if we don't put a stop to it.
My girlfriend, Renae, being a Katrina evacuee and thus a target, has been getting seriously spammed in her comments section. I can just imagine spammers sitting in the boardroom saying:
"This Katrina thing is really hot right now. Let's target all of our messages to infiltrate the blogs that talk about it. We'll get good coverage, then."
Buggers.
I'm sure there is a brainiac out there that can write a program to take spam and return it to sender 1,000,000x over so that it overloads their servers. Something has to be done.
[photo courtesy yyokota's photo stream on Flickr]
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Once upon a time, in the early days of the Internet, there was a program called the Moose that turned and attacked those that filled up your inbox. It was deemed a vigilante program and purged from the Internet. It may have been based upon the PGP Moose anti-spam authentication program for USENET from 1995.
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1995/10/msg00818.html
I must admit that my memory is a bit fuzzy on this. My point is that the problem is almost as old as the Internet.
One reason that RSS is better than eMail is that the burden for protecting the reader against spam is placed upon the server of the information, not the poor, hapless user. One reason that we selected b2evolution as our blog engine is that the community is fairly devoted to fighting referrer, comment and trackback spam.
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