Comments on: I’m having a really, really bad day. Grim https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=776 The Blog of BartCop.com Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:36:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 By: RexDevious https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=776&cpage=1#comment-5025 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:59:16 +0000 http://bartblog.bartcop.com/2007/08/24/im-haveing-a-really-really-bad-day-grim/#comment-5025 I can’t believe spam still exists. I wrote a program about 5 years ago that is not based on technology (which spammers can adapt to faster than people who know you). I recently set it up so that anyone can use it. If you want to test it for yourself, send an email to “Me@RandyHamilton.com” and I’ll set you up as an alpha tester One unique thing, is you can see what it *would* do before you give it permission to do anything at all. I’ll have support for gmail address (they use SSL) sometime in the next week. But I already trust it enough to run my business emails through it.

Seriously, spam is beatable. Because the people, companies, and websites you want email from know *something* about you – but spammers only know your email address. That’s what my system is based on.

Send me an email and you’ll see how it works. You’ll never get spam, and you’ll never lose an email. I have those same “e-card” emails sitting in about 7 different email account. Not one of them got through of course. And if you think that virus is bad – check out nimda. One person did a preview on that email when I was the CTO of an investment bank, and it took me a good 17 hours to get it out of our networks.

Spammers will only get better at exploiting email – but they’ll never be good enough to beat a system that looks for some indication that you actually *know* the person you’re emailing. I wrote the thing, and *I* couldn’t get a piece of email in your INBOX against your wishes.

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