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Date Posted: 12/ 2/04 11:40am EST
Author: Shawn
Subject: Want to help fight SPAM?

Want to help fight SPAM? I recently found a new tool to do so! It is a screensaver that you install on your computer. Whenever you walk away and the screensaver comes on, it sends little requests to the website of the people that send out that annoying junk mail. In doing so, your otherwise idle computer is using up space the spammer could be using to send out SPAM.

What this means is they either have to send out less SPAM (a good thing!) or they have to spend more money to get more space just to send out the same amount of SPAM (also a good thing!).

This article has more details, and talks about just how successfull this has been: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4061375.stm

If you want to do it, either email me at smrgolfer@gmail.com or leave me a message here and I'll send you the file to install with instructions. I am running it on my home and work PC, it does not cause ANY problems at all!

For anyone out there that cares and knows about it -- yes, the technology works similar to the SETI project. I suspect nobody except for maybe Geoff will know what that means, but hey, you never know.

Shawn

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