4 Nov
2006
4 Nov
'06
3:27 a.m.
I see only one way to get rid of spam: Hashcash type of thing being
required by everyone, but with some kind of a protocol to make
mailing lists be able to work.
Of course, that won't work if the spam is sent only by some botnets
using tons of computers. To fix that everyone would have to start
using operating systems which don't allow you to accidentally run all
sorts of botnet software. And such operating systems don't exist at
the moment. Although OLTP's sounds promising.