I suspect that, by now, everyone just tired of being bombarded by offers for drugs, watches, and so forth. I got to thinking about the idea of making e-mail accounts wait a second or so between e-mails in order to make it too slow for the spammers to succeed. I don't know if it will ever happen, but how about this variant:
Witihin your e-mail reader, reporting something as spam would result in a long-missive explaining that you prefer not to be spammed, presumably utilizing the same techniques that they use; gifs, nonsense words and dialogs, random titles, etc. to prevent your reply from being automatically discarded. If a substantial fraction of the mails returned were thus, would they not have a mountain of garbage to pick through to get to the suckers that actually reply?
Sort of a communal denial-of-service, but each sender only sends once. Could it work or would it be too spread over time?
Witihin your e-mail reader, reporting something as spam would result in a long-missive explaining that you prefer not to be spammed, presumably utilizing the same techniques that they use; gifs, nonsense words and dialogs, random titles, etc. to prevent your reply from being automatically discarded. If a substantial fraction of the mails returned were thus, would they not have a mountain of garbage to pick through to get to the suckers that actually reply?
Sort of a communal denial-of-service, but each sender only sends once. Could it work or would it be too spread over time?