[pchelpers] Article:What else can we do to stop the spammers?

Our pieces on the scourge of junk mail have caught the imagination of 
readers, who offer their suggestions

Nik Clayton and Charles Arthur
Thursday November 23, 2006
The Guardian

In the spam-fighting community there's the notion of the FUSSP - that's 
the Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem. It's so-called because 
periodically people pop up proclaiming that spam is now a solved 
problem, if only everybody would adopt their scheme. (There's a 
taxonomoy of these at www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html.) So 
let's look at the suggestion that have been made by readers to "solve" 
spam, following the past fortnight's articles.

More here:
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/insideit/story/0,,1954392,00.html
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