{"id":104,"date":"2009-10-14T23:20:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T04:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=104"},"modified":"2012-12-05T00:55:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:55:05","slug":"easy-but-impossible-way-to-get-rid-of-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2009\/10\/14\/easy-but-impossible-way-to-get-rid-of-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy but impossible way to get rid of spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pondering how one may be able to get rid of spam. Not just what comes into my mailbox, but most spam everywhere. And I found such a simple solution it&#8217;s amazing I haven&#8217;t heard of it before. But of course it will never happen, so that probably explains it.<\/p>\n<p>Spammers rely on that sending even extremely large volumes of spam is nearly free. It takes some effort to find a nice relay and\/or create a small botnet, but following that every message a spammer sends is free. I don&#8217;t have the statistics handy, but the &#8216;positive&#8217; response to spam is something like one for every hundred thousand messages sent.<\/p>\n<p>Now imagine it cost five cents to deliver an email. That means to send 100k of messages the spammer would have to pay 5000$, which would make the business not feasible. How easy a solution is that!<\/p>\n<p>And yeah, I know &#8211; gmail filters all the spam for you, and the wrong infrastructure is there, and some people would actually mind paying 5 cents to send an email, but I think it&#8217;s a great idea anyway, even though it is unlikely to happen in this form in my lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pondering how one may be able to get rid of spam. Not just what comes into my mailbox, but most spam everywhere. And I found such a simple solution it&#8217;s amazing I haven&#8217;t heard of it before. But of course it will never happen, so that probably explains it. Spammers rely on that &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-104","6":"format-standard","7":"category-safeforseneca","8":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}