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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:32:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Dave Korn <dk AT artimi DOT com>
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Subject: RE: PCYMTNQREAIYR, it really works.
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On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Dave Korn wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase
> > Sent: 23 September 2004 17:09
>
> > We really need some *global* rules, e.g. SPF and some other, similar
> > method, to get 99% of spamservers out of the internet.
>
>   Nahh.  What we really need are not rules; what we need are *hammers*.
> Spammers can't hit "send" if all their fingers are broken.  There's only
> a few thousand real serious spammers in the world who are responsible
> for 99.9% of all the spam that gets sent, and hammers are cheap: we
> could have a purge, take them all out overnight in one great big "Night
> of the Long Mallets"....

I'm sure there are many creative solutions proposed on news:alt.spam
(including, but not limited to, printing out every e-mail message sent by
a given spammer on some particularly unpleasant brand of paper and
force-feeding it to him, or worse).  Perhaps the rest of this discussion
can take place there?
	Igor
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