Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

[Sidarth Dasari <sidster802@gmail.com>]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
>   
>> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:59:53 -0600, Sidarth Dasari <sidster802@gmail.com>
>> said:
>>
>>     
>>> Is anybody else getting tons of spam emails from this mailing list?
>>>       
>>         Spam? The last Spam message I saw was in late October -- or was
>>  it early November? This is what filtering is for:
>>   http://www.golden-gryphon.com/mail/
>>   http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj/categories/spam.html
>>
>>     
>
> Filtering is a very practical solution. However, the problem with filtering,
> as I am sure you are already aware of, is that you have already incurred
> the cost of spam (CPU time spent on filtering, bandwidth used etc.,). I
> think the correct solution to spam is to look at the root cause of it.
> Spammers send spam emails because they make money out of it. They make
> money by advertising their spammed websites (well, most of the spam
> emails). If we are able to shutdown these spammy websites then at least
> that would reduce the amount of spam hovering over the internet. So far, I
> have seen two successful projects doing this - knujon[1],
> complainterator[2].
>
> [1] http://www.knujon.com/
> [2] http://www.complainterator.com/
>
>
> just my 2 cents
> raju
>   
Thanks for those links :)