Re: Why Spam is a problem

[John Stracke <jstracke at centivinc.com>]

stanislav shalunov wrote:

> One can imagine 1000 sets of decoy words for different categories of
> people, with each message sent by the spammer in 1000 copies (so, you
> might get it in 0 copies if you're very unusual -- or in 50 copies if
> you discuss fishing, computer networking, investing, travel, and such
> other categories in email regularly and the spammer has decoy lists
> for fishing, etc.).
>  
Mmm, but that pours gasoline on the villagers' torches.  It'd be much 
more clearly a crime, since it's so obviously an attempt to evade the 
recipient's filters.  Sending me one message customized to get through 
can masquerade as free expression; sending me 1000 is a dictionary 
attack on my security.  At that point, spammers will start going to jail.

> If Javascript
> works in the recipient's MUA, then you have
>  
...an idiotic MUA.  (Yeah, I know I'm using one that supports it; but 
it's turned off.)

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