Knowspam · 16 July 2003
...in five days of using it.
This is good. Unlike the filtering I’ve been relying on, which runs incoming email against massively complex algorithms derived from existing spam – a heroic but inherently sisyphean effort demanding constant updates – Knowspam simply requires all mail from addresses I don’t recognise (or to mailing lists to which I don’t belong) to pass one criterion: to have been sent by a human. For the sender to prove so is a quick matter, just a one-time visit to a web page.
This quickly shuts the door on all the servers pumping out unsolicited commercial email by the million every day. Slam. No thanks, good-bye. No more Soaked Cumslutz, no more h3rbal v1agr4; just people wondering when your god damned CMS is coming out.
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