Counter-spam: Change the subject
Paul McGuire
ptmcg at austin.rr.com
Tue Dec 11 09:23:43 EST 2007
On Dec 11, 5:59 am, dfg <sofiya... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Breakthrough - How To Turn Your Dull Website into Money Making Website
<snip>
I was surprised at how effectively the spam posting the other day,
"Jesus in the Quran" was masked and defused by a reply titled "J in
the Q". It seems this might be a simple tool for cleaning up some of
the spam posting clutter, just by "changing the subject" (double
entendre not intentional, it just happened). Instead of these
breathless, shouting subjects full of '#' signs and capital letters,
we just acronymify them to "H T T Y D W into M M W" by posting a reply
and editing the subject.
Could this work? It seems too simple.
-- Paul
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