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About ten years ago, a similar checklist was the default response to proposed solutions to spam problems. And then someone wrote a proposal that checked many o
by drblast 15y ago
About ten years ago, a similar checklist was the default response to proposed solutions to spam problems.
And then someone wrote a proposal that checked many of the boxes on that list, but had the odd feature of actually working quite well.
I think that guy quit went on to start a news web site. I guess he was discouraged by the checklist.
- michaelchisari 15y agoPardon my naivete, but what are you referring to?
- nostrademons 15y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://arclanguage.org/ http://arclanguage.org/
- nostrademons 15y agoIronically, he also went on to invent a programming language with many of the same checklist items.
- dextorious 15y agoWith as much success as implied by the checklist.
- 0x12 15y agohttp://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
- william42 15y agoWhich boxes does it actually check?
- MichaelGagnon 15y agoAre you referring to CRM114? Simultaneously the best spam filter and the worst programming language.
- Vivtek 15y agoThis kind of offhand comment revealing something I never heard of yet fall instantaneously in love with is exactly why HNN exists.
- wisty 15y agoWhich boxes did he check, other than the introductory "technical" box (rather than legislative, etc), and arguably the brute force one? The whole point of the checklist was that people kept re-inventing the square wheel (white-lists, trust circles, black-lists, $0.0001 emails, and so on).