Recent Spam problem

[Michael F. Stemper]

On 2017-07-25 10:03, alister wrote:
> 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.

>>> 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:

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

I just got a new nulldev from Data General about a week back:

username at hostname$ ll /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jul 16 15:22 /dev/null
username at hostname$

Its performance is awesome, and it comes with a powerful GUI for
configuring and customizing.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding;
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.