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What kind of replies do you get?

• yummyfajitas 16y ago
  Assurances that they aren't crooks, scans of forged documents, religious claims ("I am a good CHRISTIAN brother"), that sort of thing. It was my plan to build a markov process which oscillated between various sets of states (curious but untrusting, trusting, suspicious) as new emails are received. Now that I think about it, it is definitely a project worth revisiting.
  • bshep 16y ago
    How about a service that for a couple of $ a month ( or free ) people can forward their nigerian spam and your process 'has a conversation' with them wasting their time. If you get enough people into this it will slow down their scamming a lot.
    • yummyfajitas 16y ago
      Not very many people would pay for it - scam email auto replying is a public good. If I auto reply to your spam, it doesn't benefit you. At most, your domain would be placed on a "not a human" list at larger scam email shops. However, it might be useful if gmail/yahoo/hotmail ran such a service - that would make it very hard for scammers to separate real responses from phony from gmail users. However, I've decided I will return to the project. I'll put it on bitbucket when it works with the latest version of lamson.
      • bshep 16y ago
        If you finish it let me know! I would definitely use it!