This was pretty funny.

(via Aaron Wall)

An article from the Wall Street Journal alluded to a solution to spam that might just work.
We pay $0.37 for letters and don’t complain (much) about it. We pay for internet access, cable, power, web hosting and a host of other things. What about charging money to send e-mails?
Before you write off my [...]

I used to make your e-mail address optional when commenting because I never liked giving out my e-mail address but I’m now making it required. I promise not to reveal it anywhere, or to spam you, and if you still don’t trust me feel free to use a fake one, even something humorous. [...]

I have a dream that one day, we will share our e-mail addresses with others without having to worry about being deluged with unsolicited e-mail. I have a dream that we’ll be able to post our actual e-mail address on our web sites, without having to tell people to remove this, or add that, [...]

You may have heard about Mailinator, a service used for creating temporary e-mail addresses for site registrations. The standard use case is:
1. You begin registering for a web site that wants your e-mail address.
2. You think of an e-mail address at mailinator (spam@mailinator.com for instance)
3. The web site sends out an e-mail to confirm [...]

In the seemingly unending fight against spam there’s a new kid on the block. Their solution can be frustrating for non-spammers, but it has its advantages.
They use the challenge and response approach to maintain a white list. This means that you give certain users authorization to e-mail you and anyone else who sends [...]

If anything, I’ve noticed a recent increase in spam, in spite of a new law aimed at stopping it. True to their nature, spammers are making a small effort to find loopholes in the law, while some are ignoring it completely. The end result: Spamming continues unabated.

It’s super-instant, always-ready, any-e-mail-you-want e-mail, right now. And with a name like mailinator, it’s bound to be good.
Mailinator provides sacrificial e-mail addresses that can be used when signing up for something that requires an e-mail address for confirmation. No passwords, no privacy, and no spam.
Even if you don’t use their service, their FAQ [...]

Randy Cassingham, of This is True, has created a primer on spam. If you already know a little about spam, it probably won’t be of much interest, but it does a good job of summarizing the problem for newcomers. It also has a couple of sections at the bottom discussing chain letters and [...]

I’ve heard a lot about SpamCop recently, and after reading this mefi thread I decided to sign up.
In short, it’s a free service aimed at stopping spam.
When you sign up, you are given a unique email address. Each time you receive spam you just forward the email as an attachment to SpamCop and they [...]

Research on how spammers get your email address indicates the most common way is through high-traffic web sites. It also showed that masking your email address with HTML entities was an effective way to avoid spam. (via /.)

I got home at 6:30am this morning after working on our project all night and slept until 4pm this afternoon. I didn’t have to go into work so I got some errands done and got my library card. I’m glad I don’t have that schedule every day.
I’ve seen an increase in spam lately [...]