Recent Spam problem

[alister]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:29:56 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:50 PM,  <skybuck2000 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I see two solutions:
>>
>> 1. We build new architecture or adept current one so it's more like a
>> blockchain, have to calculate some hash before being able to post and
>> upload and such.
>>
>> or
>>
>> 2. We counter-attack by installing a special tool, so we all denial of
>> service attack the source of the message, I am not sure if the source
>> is genuine information, what you make of it:
>>
>> NNTP-Posting-Host: 39.52.70.224
>>
>>
>> Now the first solution would require a lot of work.
>>
>> The second solution would be easy to do.
>>
>> My question to you is:
>>
>> What solution do you pick of any ? =D
> 
> There are bad people in the world. I know! Let's all go and drop nuclear
> bombs on them. That'll fix the problem!
> 
> OR... you could try just filtering it all out, and not stooping to their
> level.
> 
> ChrisA

i say nuke em/ otherwise my /dev/null is going to need expanding ;-)



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