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 [Spamkings.oreilly.com] Spam Kings Blog: Spamware vendor in AOL's back yard: The spamming software Brian talks about the post does not have similar dual-use applications. Even more importantly, gun manufacturers and others who make deadly weapons do not induce their customers to commit crimes by advertising how their products have anti-detection capabilities that would be useful when committing a crime.

 [Weblog.johnlevine.com] E-mail, tech policy and more: Blue Security, as youprobably know, distributes a freeware program called Blue Frog that issupposed to crush spammers by hammering on their websites with gazillions of opt out requests or something like that.For a variety of reasons,the mainstream anti-spam community has never thought much of thisapproach, but every criticism only leads Blue Frog's partisans toleap ever more forcefully to its defense.(See, for example, the comments onmy note about them last year,and the comments that will doubtless be posted on this message, too.)This latest round made me realize that Blue Frog makes perfect senseif you think of it as a videogame, or perhaps a fashion accessory, rather than as an anti-spam tool.

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