Re: Come in Sid!

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:51:10 +0000, Kim Andrews <somerat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:40:11 +0000, Nick Atty
><nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>Yes. Having wrecked mail and newsgroups they are now after websites as
>>well. Are they sponsored by Murdoch I wonder.
>
>For what value of wrecked? Certainly one of my email addresses is much
>harder to use than it need be, which hacks me off no end, but even
>that one isn't *wrecked* yet (though it might get there). The others
>are all easily manageble. And this newsgroup is <touch wood> pretty
>healthy. As are the others I regularly use.

Well for email, it's fine if you only ever share your email address with
people who know you. Which is nice for those who just want to send
letters to each other (as it where).

But try putting an email address on a web site. So that, for example,
people can tell you what it's like.

Then point that address at a black-hole and never use it again. It will
be so swamped with crap as to be unusable for ever and ever and ever
after just a couple of days.

So you end up writing scripts on the website so people can email you.
This works. But it means that you are spending time and effort and
hardware and software on defeating the spammers (ie, in restoring the
status quo) rather than in adding new stuff that actually benefits
anyone.

It's like never being able to repair your roof because you are spending
every day cleaning the graffiti off your front wall.

>I loathe spammers as utter scum, and will be buying the next ticket
>after you to watch somebody do something hideous to them, but let's
>not grant them more power than they have, and let's not scaremonger,
>eh wot?

Not scaremongering I hope. Just (particularly) depressed.
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