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Where is there any useful/intelligent content in this article? Obviously we should not start killing spammers, because capital punishment is barbaric. Even if y
by JonnieCache 16y ago
Where is there any useful/intelligent content in this article? Obviously we should not start killing spammers, because capital punishment is barbaric. Even if you agree with the death penalty, you would surely agree that it is not warranted for unsolicited emails. What is worse is that the guy is advocating not just capital punishment but vigilante justice. And we all know there's no way that can ever go wrong!
The numbered points are also all moronic. The little bit about suing them was just barely interesting because of the link. I think someone has been playing too many army based video games and has a little too many fighty/sexy chemicals sloshing around their brain. He would be wise to note that a large volume of spam is sent by very well resourced chinese and russian criminal organisations, and he should probably think twice before threatening violence.
The other possibility is that the article is an attempt at ironic humour. In this case, it is one of the worst examples of this that I have ever encountered on the internet. The author (anonymous I see) should have posted a selection of LOLcats instead.
Should we kill people who write shitty content-mill blog articles?
EDIT: so that my comment cannot be accused of the same things, here is my solution to the spam problem: we need to stop using email. spam is a problem endemic to SMTP. lets all support the apache wave project so we can work on an alternative with proper end to end authentication.
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WaveProposal http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WaveProposal
- landhar 16y agoI agree. I read through the article expecting to find new ideas on how to stop spam, something along the lines of http://www.paulgraham.com/ffb.html http://www.paulgraham.com/ffb.html I was very disappointed...
- JonnieCache 16y agoThis is the best hypothetical spam-stopping mechanism I've seen: http://xkcd.com/810/ http://xkcd.com/810/ Unfortunately the implementation may prove a little tricky, although HN actually approaches it in some ways.
- junklight 16y agohmm. My take on it was that he was trying to be "thought provoking" and that it came out a bit heavy handed.