DISQUS

Almost As Good As Chocolate: Skype spam

  • Perspective Inc · 2 years ago
    Bah at spam. Does it ever end? Whats next?
  • mumbaigirl · 2 years ago
    I get these damn things in my work email all the time.
  • Rational Human · 2 years ago
    SPAM is an abuse of a free resource. Make it free and people WILL abuse it. The only rational solution I've heard to-date? re-imbursable micro-charges for bandwidth.
    Here's how it works- you send out an e-mail. You get charged a few cents. If the recipient doesn't mark it as SPAM, you get your money back (i.e. this doesn't make the net any costlier, doesn't regulate it, doesn't disenfranchise anyone)

    But for a SPAM-mer, since the response rate is
  • Peter · 2 years ago
    The answer is to disallow links or email addresses in messages that come from people that aren't in your contact list.