3 Dec
2004
3 Dec
'04
6:30 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:59:14AM -0800, Brett wrote:
I personally like the idea, even though it's not original, it just took a large site to back it. Too bad they couldn't do it right.
It *can't* be done "right". That's the point that some of us have been making, both in an ethical sense and a technical sense. If you don't buy the ethical argument (which is arguably a matter of personal opinion anyway) then at least note the technical argument and think about how this is going to interact with spammer countermeasures, including zombies, redirectors, hijacked networks, and all the rest. Impact on spammers: negligible. Impact on everyone else: unknown but quite possibly severe. ---Rsk