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Войнушка со спамерами закончилась печально. Наши проиграли этим гандонам. Печально сознавать, что власть и в киберпространстве принадлежит криминалитету. Причём любые предложения введения интернет-полиции будут иметь ещё более печальные последствия. А в условиях анархии наиболее действенными будут децентрализованые отряды с[п]амообороны. Вооружаемся.



А пока пойду заполню Стандартную Форму ответа на предложения по борьбе со спамом:








You advocate a

technical

legislative

market-based

vigilante

     approach to fighting spam.



Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.

(One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)




Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses

Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected

No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money

It is defenseless against brute force attacks

It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it

Users of email will not put up with it

Microsoft will not put up with it

The police will not put up with it

Requires too much cooperation from spammers

Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once

Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers

Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists

Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business



Specifically, your plan fails to account for

Laws expressly prohibiting it

Lack of centrally controlling authority for email

Open relays in foreign countries

Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses

Asshats

Jurisdictional problems

Unpopularity of weird new taxes

Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money

Huge existing software investment in SMTP

Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack

Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email

Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes

Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches

Extreme profitability of spam

Joe jobs and/or identity theft

Technically illiterate politicians

Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers

Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves

Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering

Outlook



and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical

Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable

SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation

Blacklists suck

Whitelists suck

We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored

Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud

Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks

Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually

Sending email should be free

Why should we have to trust you and your servers?

Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses

Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem

Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome

I don't want the government reading my email

Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough



Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.

This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.

Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!






PS. Кстати мой Gmail за последние пару месяцев вышел на практически идеальный режим фильтрации спама, несмотря на атаки спамеров. Рекомендую (приглашения имеются).



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