disLEXia

Sunday, 15. September 2002

Hacking Trackback into Radio IIa

You might wonder, why there is still no code: Pythons regex engine is cordumping on some of the pages with the moderate complex regular expressions I use. Working on this.
08:05 | permanent link | mail this

Etzioni: Reply to Spammers

Etzioni: Reply to Spammers. Oren Etzioni has an op-ed in today's New York Times about spam. His proposal:

Though spammers hope to lure us with their dubious propositions ("URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL"), they rely on those of us who don't want to participate to delete their messages quietly and go about our daily business. What would happen if recipients instead replied en masse to each message?
... Faced with hundreds of thousands of responses, the spammer would have to use substantial resources to store the responses, sift through them and identify those registering genuine interest.

Edward Felten thinks this is a bad Idea. He is right. It's hard to get in contanct with spammers. And I don't have the time to do so for the roudabout 100 spam messages I get per day.
08:17 | permanent link | mail this

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