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We did that at AOL with regards to fighting spam, when I was the Sr. Internet Mail Adminstrator in the mid-90s. We would put in weeks and months of work to com

We did that at AOL with regards to fighting spam, when I was the Sr. Internet Mail Adminstrator in the mid-90s. We would put in weeks and months of work to come up with a new method of fighting spam that would actually work [0], and over the span of a weekend after launch, the spammers would already have worked around it. [0] As opposed to the random crackpot ideas that every damn stupid AOL VP came up with that started with "Why don't you just ...". If I had a nickel for every damn stupid AOL VP crackpot idea, I'd be a multi-millionaire by now.

account42 3y ago
> [0] As opposed to the random crackpot ideas that every damn stupid AOL VP came up with that started with "Why don't you just ...". I hope you used https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt as your resignation letter.
- bradknowles 3y ago
  We had a similar document that we had developed over time which I believe pre-dated this one. Ours may even have been the inspiration upon which this one was based. For me, by that time AOL had become a sufficiently toxic place that we came to a mutual agreement that it was time for me to leave. If it hadn't been for that, I would never have gotten a chance to work at Collective Technologies, where we had more O'Reilly authors on staff than any other company in the world!