Now Is the Time to Finally Kill Spam - A Call to Action

[martin f krafft]

also sprach R. A. Hettinga <rah at shipwright.com> [2003.10.13.0639 +0200]:
> The time to stop this nonsense is now, and there's a non-governmental,
> low-cost, low-effort way it could happen. Here's my plan of action, it's
> not original to me but I want to lay it out publicly as a battle plan:

Of course the plan is good, and I am all for it. But it won't be
carried in less than 10 years.

I am much in favour of Graham's "fight back" approach, which is to
simply "visit" webpage URLs in all emails automatically. This will
drown spammer websites in requests and should make spam a lot less
worthy.

Who has been working with this system already? Are there reference
implementations?

-- 
martin;              (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
  \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net at madduck
 
invalid/expired pgp subkeys? use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
 
"oh what a tangled web we weave,
 when first we practice to deceive."
                                                        -- shakespeare
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/attachments/20031013/a287a1cd/attachment.pgp>