Fighting spam by public education?

[Marc Perkel <ma...@perkel.com>]

I hope I'm not the first one who has though of this but suppose we 
created a web site with material to educate the public on how not to get 
ripped off from spam. The idea being that it is both simple and 
comprehensive and targeted at educating the public.

The theory being that if the public is smarter then spamming becomes 
less profitable and we take a chunk of the money out of spammer pockets. 
If it were done right and got a lot of press ISP's could make it 
required reading for new customers.

Has anyone done this or anything like it?

Re: Fighting spam by public education?

[Michael Clark <mc...@cdtmail.org>]

At 8:03 AM -0700 5/4/06, Marc Perkel wrote:
>Has anyone done this or anything like it?

http://spam.getnetwise.org We're in PcMagazine's annual Top 100 
Classic web sites, used to be linked from the home pages of AOL.com, 
MSNBC.com, hotmail.com, etc... Yes, I'm the webmaster for the site. 
Mike


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Re: Fighting spam by public education?

[Jeff Chan <je...@surbl.org>]

On Thursday, May 4, 2006, 8:03:36 AM, Marc Perkel wrote:
> I hope I'm not the first one who has though of this but suppose we 
> created a web site with material to educate the public on how not to get 
> ripped off from spam. The idea being that it is both simple and 
> comprehensive and targeted at educating the public.

> The theory being that if the public is smarter then spamming becomes 
> less profitable and we take a chunk of the money out of spammer pockets. 
> If it were done right and got a lot of press ISP's could make it 
> required reading for new customers.

> Has anyone done this or anything like it?

SpamCon is pretty good:

  http://spamcon.org/

Jeff C.
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Re: Fighting spam by public education?

[Kelson <ke...@speed.net>]

Marc Perkel wrote:
> Has anyone done this or anything like it?

http://www.spamdontbuyit.org/ is another one.

It's not terribly detailed, but it focuses on the economic issue.  They 
have a great diagram illustrating the disparity between the large number 
of messages a spammer sends out and the small number of people who have 
to bite for them to stay in business.

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