On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:54:32AM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote:
> --On 8 December 2006 20:26:53 +0000 Chris Lightfoot <chris@???>
> wrote:
[...]
> > Things
> >would be a lot simpler if you people would just install
> >spam filters and stop whinging.
>
> Marc (like many of us) spends his life building spam filters. Spammers
> spend their lives working round them. It's tedious, which is why people are
> looking for more principled solutions.
But none of the IP-address-based things can be used (on
their own) to filter spam, because to do that you have to
inspect the contents of the messages. Problems like the
one Marc describes are caused by people ignoring this.
``Black lists'', SPF and its satellite standards etc.
might be principled solutions to *something* but it isn't
spam filtering. Meanwhile, the technology we have at the
moment for actually filtering spam works adequately and
without the collateral damage of the IP-based approaches.
> "Stop whinging" is a whinge, too.
of course!
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