Spam

The New York Times reports that spam has doubled over the past year and spammers are combating Paul Graham's plan for spam by hiding their hello kitty vibrator ads in bitmap images where the filter can't pick them out.

I've been using Gmail as my mail client for a while now. If there were a way to whitelist who can send me file attachments (ie: anyone in my addressbook) my Gmail spam would be near-zero.

As it is 5-10 attachment spams get through the filter per day.

If solving spam means sacrificing email attachments, I'm all for it. Then again, maybe not (NSFW!!).

© Josh Staiger, joshstaiger@gmail.com