Re: Possible Anti-spam solution (was Re: Example of the anti-fax effect)

[Len Budney]

Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Well, only until you put a tool in place that matches on
> Subject. How much code does a spammer have to write to randomize the
> Subject?...Then what will you match on? The content? How much code
> does it take to randomize the content?

At which point spam is virtually undetectable, of course.

Not much code is required--this is fairly well-understood technology.
See <http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/5190/complaint.htm> for an
amusing example. 

Plenty of others exist, including one which generates post-modernist
essays ready for publication. That demonstrates something about
academia, I'm sure...

Len.

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