SPAM and archives (Was: Re: [plug] PHP question..)

[Craig Ringer]

>> How do you propose to do this? Bearing in mind the difficulty of 
>> getting the
>> international community to agree on serious and life-threatening issues,
>> getting a 100% concensus on legislation to outlaw spam is a complete non
>> starter. As the US has shown, even defining spam is proving difficult.
>>  
>>
> Simple, its any unsolicited email that is sent out for commercial 
> purposes.  That is what 99% of the spam I receive is.

Urrggh. Try working for a newspaper - there are lists out there of 
"email addresses you should drown in raving gibberish whenever something 
in the world happens that you don't like." The number of "press 
releases" I get is a real PITA, especially since they're quite hard to 
catch using spam filtering.

The background level isn't too bad, but whenever the yanks do something 
offensive, our PM goes and does something really stupid, etc, the mail 
comes pouring in at a rate of hundreds of messages /an hour/.

Craig Ringer