[ale] (no subject) SPAM talk...

[Geoffrey]

George Carless wrote:

> The problem is that obfuscation can only ever be a (very) short-term
> solution.  The people developoing the spamming software are
> relatively quick, and relatively sophisticated - and they have an
> obvious vested interest in keeping track of new methods of
> obfuscation (and rendering them ineffective), while the rest of us
> who're running mailing lists etc. don't have the same 
> time/resources/etc. to dedicate to the problem.

George makes an excellent point here.  The spammers spend their money to 
work on this problem because it is their livelyhood.  The rest of the 
world is spending their money and time on their livelyhood, and trying 
to stay ahead of the spammers is taking away from that livelyhood.

So Drew, you want to fix this problem, pay someone to do it.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft