[linux-audio-user] Re: OT Spam

Have you noticed how experts (like the one who won the Millenium award, Lee something) promotes only filter technologies (because they sell the filtering software)? Filters will not be a solution because the spam still goes through the whole network. The spam is deleted only at the destination. Over 2/3 of the mail traffic is now spam. (And that could be based on mail counts, not on mail sizes. Spams have large attachments.) They should filter at ISP which gives the feed to the spammer. If the ISP receives a mail with 100000 addresses or 100000 mails, then the mails are deleted right at the source. Better would be if the whole mail system would be moved to use p2p technology or a handshaking tech (mailman seems to use some sort of manual handshaking in the subscription procedure). They would not filter the spam but validity of the sender would become verified. I have never understood why somebody should be able to send me a mail anonymously. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software