On 5/19/02 11:03 PM, "kim brooks wei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe (some of) the following ideas will work: > > BLOCK-SPAM DATABASE > A website run by a group of interested parties which houses a > block-spam database which is updated on a regular basis. You mean like Vulpin's Razor? <http://razor.sourceforge.net/> > The database contains three lists: private servers delivering > spam mail, multi-user servers allowing their servers to be used for > spam mail and a list of ISPs and web(/mail)hosts that provide public > service and voluntarily participate in the spamjinn.com DATABASE > program. How does this differ from any of the dozen existing black hole databases that already exist? Why build another one? > And naturally, tips to users on how to take steps to eradicate > spam with links to all the good anti-spam sites that are out there > today. You mean, like <http://www.cauce.org/>? Seems like you're reinventing a bunch of wheels here. All of which already exist in some form. That's one of the problems with these discussions -- people come in with ideas without knowing what's already been tried and how it worked, and without researching what others are currently trying/doing. I don't want to sound mean or negative -- but before people start creating web sites or run off with great ideas, they really need to spend time researching what they're trying to do. It's amazing how many times stuff gets reinvented due to naivete that (gasp) maybe someone else had that idea before I did. And so little real progress gets made, because the same stuff gets built, and the same mistakes get made again, instead of leveraging off what's already there and moving forward, or finding out it's not a workable idea and saving the energy for some other, more useful idea. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.
