news.yahoo.com— An executive at Microsoft Corp. has an unusual idea for beating spammers. Powerful software tools and supercomputers aren't involved, but kittens are. Or rather, photos of kittens.
Aug 3, 2007View in Crawl 4
Someone should start a new email protocol and service that has the ability to charge per email(email meets paypal). The charge should be optional and charged by the email recipient if they choose to. This optional charge would virtually eliminate spam as spammers could not afford to send millions of emails that people are going to charge against. Yet any email that you deem worthy of receiving would still be free. This type of system would obviously have negatives, you would have to put money in the account before you can send email. But if you charged 1 penny per email you could fund an account with $1 and have up to 100 emails out before being required to wait until they "clear". Put a timer on the charge ability so that someone has to request the charge within 24 hours of the email being sent.
Exactly what I wanted to say. This is hardly an übersolution to spam, but might help reduce it by making the game harder for spammers. Not so hard to beat technically, but it would simply increase the amount of work required for spammers.
what about having to guess the length of longcat? longcat is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
yunusAug 5, 2007
Someone should start a new email protocol and service that has the ability to charge per email(email meets paypal). The charge should be optional and charged by the email recipient if they choose to. This optional charge would virtually eliminate spam as spammers could not afford to send millions of emails that people are going to charge against. Yet any email that you deem worthy of receiving would still be free. This type of system would obviously have negatives, you would have to put money in the account before you can send email. But if you charged 1 penny per email you could fund an account with $1 and have up to 100 emails out before being required to wait until they "clear". Put a timer on the charge ability so that someone has to request the charge within 24 hours of the email being sent.
diggdongAug 5, 2007
I don't get it. You have to put a kitten in your email box???
tehboredAug 5, 2007
LOLcats ftw!
koookieAug 5, 2007
Exactly what I wanted to say. This is hardly an übersolution to spam, but might help reduce it by making the game harder for spammers. Not so hard to beat technically, but it would simply increase the amount of work required for spammers.
bpmdubAug 6, 2007
Yeah Bank of America has been doing this for a while
Closed AccountAug 7, 2007
you found it good for you
Closed AccountAug 8, 2007
what about having to guess the length of longcat? longcat is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
douchrtiAug 12, 2007
Here Kitty Kitty!