[Penguicon-Concom] Website Request

[chuck child]

Well, considering that, on his website, he indicates that the first spammer
pulled down a gig before he cut off. . . . Billions are completely doable. .
. .

:)

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Jer <jer.lance at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's trivial to add, so I'm all for it... but I'd imagine that it'll do
> absolutely no good. It presupposes that the increase in cost of sending to
> all of the bad addresses would make the list worthless... ignoring the fact
> that a spammer's address book is typically 10%-20% good addresses to start
> with. We'd have to have a list that includes a number on the order of
> BILLIONS of bad addresses to start to make it painful.
>
> That having been said, I'd love to get in on the ground floor of creating
> that list of billions... lets rock this!!!
>
> -jer
>
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:02 PM, chuck child <chuck.child at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I would like to make a formal request for our website, first to the
> > ConChair for This year, Gerald.   Second to the ConChair for 2009, Matt
> > Arnold.   Finally, to the Penguicon Board, to take up at our next meeting.
> >
> > I formally request that this piece of code be added to the Footer data
> > of our website:
> >
> > <a href="http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/spam/">
> > This link kills spam</a><br />
> >
> > The text can be modified any way you like.
> >
> >
> > Reason:   This link is to a page which includes 5400 false email
> > addresses, and includes a further link that leads to a duplicate page, which
> > generates 5400 more, and the cycle repeats.    When a site-scraper passes
> > across our site they will be sent to a veritable goldmine. . . OF fools
> > gold, filling their database with false email addresses.   In the future,
> > when the author manages to produce code that will allow us to generate
> > similar pages locally, I will lobby for us to host such a thing locally.
> >
> > Hopefully, tools like this will reduce the likelihood of our actual
> > email addresses being harvested and used, by rendering the email address
> > databases too full of false addresse to justify keeping.
> >
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> >
> >
>
>
> --
> -jer
> jer.lance at gmail.com
> http://www.ibloviate.org
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