On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:17:42PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:16:34PM +0000, Robin Green wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:33:20 +0100 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomas Zerolo) wrote:
[automatic astroturf detection, karma system] > > Baaaaaaad. Spam is easily humanly-recognisable by at least 20% of the > > net population, so a spam-filter is humanly verifiable [...] > Worse: such systems are entirely reliant on being provided with > correct training data in order to function. And you can't really get > that either. > > Also, spammers have no real motive to evade most anti-spam systems, [...] Good points, both of you. Another occurs to me: there might be legitimate reasons for someone to hide behind different personae. So what if "we" are providing the infrastructure for a police-state [whatever this might mean in whatever context] to uncloak those people? (More things along these lines come to mind...) :-( Regards -- tomás
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