Reducing spam an already done deal?

I feel stupid when i see the amount of spam we see on the email channels.



More because its an already solved problem to a large extent. The thing called instant messenger. And an option called block unknown users. Duh!!!!!



NO sender id no blacklists no dynamic algos. just plain old do i know you handshake. Hell even better prior art exists. Caller id on land telephones. Designed to reduce spam on phone, many people scan their messages and caller ids before picking up the phone. Hell i do it to avoid certain people, (i label them known spam).



Why can't people have the same thing implemented in email????

i can't say DDUUUHHHHHH!!! louder.





PS: Not that im doesn't have spam, but the amount is so miniscual compared to amount of users.

www.devslashzero.com

I purchased this domain to test out google application suit. Its sounds real good deal for small businesses and individuals.

If google manages to iron out some rough corners. Its page creator sucks for one thing and the docs.google.com is a little limited. Also more customizing on interface side would have been welcome.



On the other hand the things could not have been simpler (only if you register the domain name with google, it pretty ugly otherwise.)

I had a website for my mother in law's beauty parlor up and running in minutes with addwords purchased and displaying her adds on the google in next 20 mins.



Real cool stuff.....



I say it again and again, Google SCARES ME!!!!!



BTW i plan to make it my permanent home in next few days, with my email switched to bain-nospam-removethis-(aT)devslashzero.com

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Tiring gui's

Few months back i wrote about OSX on my macbook.

I also mentioned to see if i will stick with its interface and for how long. Well we have an answer to that now. Not too long. I am now fulltime linux (feisty to be precise) user on macbook now. With even suspend working with a slightly sloppy hack, i have no reason left to go back to OSX.



I am waiting for some time before i will completely erase the OSX partition as its taking up whopping 30 GBs of my harddrive.

http://kgit.sf.net

One more of my weekend hacks.... but atleast this time its margnially usefull already to people at my workplace.