Reading a News Bar article today, about spam-fighters who close down spamvertised websites, I was amazed at the amount of sites project KnujOn has claimed to close down.
Apparently, 32,000+ sites are 404-compliant due to their hard work. And that's a lot of hard work, given that many of the big-player ISP's are still spam-friendly. Then it occurred to me: that's a lot of time and money these folks have invested in contacting these ISP's and webhosts. Must be a full-time job!
When everyone adopts tagged email addresses, the real culprits (the ones who sell your personal information) will be exposed. Turning off a tagged address won't prevent that first piece of UCE coming in, but at least it guarantees you won't be bothered again. Of course, there are some that believe that temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome. True, but not as cumbersome as JHD'ing or continually tweaking filters/blocklists.
The trouble with most anti-spammers, is that they like to in-fight. Very few will have anything positive to say, only comment that this won't work, that won't work. They're like the PFJ versus the JPF:
Naturally, project KnujOn hasn't closed down 32,000+ spammers, only 32,000+ websites operated by around 50 groups of spammers. Not that I'm not grateful, but this means that they are simply playing Whac-A-Mole, providing short-term relief from the current tide of spam flowing from rogue networks.
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