Fight spammers by visiting their sites
In a status report on the success rate of Bayesian spam filters, Paul Graham suggests a new technique: download the text of each URL in an e-mail and check it with Bayesian techniques. He writes:... following all the urls in a spam would have an amusing side-effect. If popular email clients did this in order to filter spam, the spammer's servers would take a serious pounding.
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