So, I read an article that is both sensical and scary:

Flaming Mountainside: Breeding Internet Superbugs

I get a LOT of junk mail in my USPS mailbox in front of my house, and I pretty much ignore it, as long as it doesn’t look terribly important. It goes right into the trash.

I have to agree with vixie in the above article; the issue is not being solved, just pushed away.

In the Linux Admin world, currently, in order to have a mail server that will send to Yahoo! and AOL, among others, you already have to jump through plenty of hoops:

These are just a few things to try, and still, the spam keeps flowing, because the spammer has a need to get his message through.  I suppose I could try Spamassassin or Postini.  Some companies even offer to manage the spam problem for you (and they do a pretty darn good job of it, too!).

As the old saying goes, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Continuing to “fix” the spam issue will cause the number of spammers fluent in loopholes to exceed the number of hackers available to fix the problem.

All in all, how do we fix the spam issue? The same way we fix the junk mail issue: The delete key.

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