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Re: Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Mon, 19 May 2014 17:11 UTC

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On 5/19/2014 10:01 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
> spam is a chronic disease for which there is no magic bullet.
> like most chronic diseases, Internet or otherwise, it can be mitigated
> and controlled but not cured.

+1


> Then again, I assumed the first note from Eric Dynamic was satire.
> I must watch too much comedy central.

As far as I know, Cory Doctorow also intended his classic, pro forma
checklist as humor, but folks in the anti-abuse community find it
seriously useful to point folks at, when there is yet-another proposal
Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem (FUSSP):

   http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt

d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net

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