Wanted: Spam trap extension for Mozilla Thunderbird
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I'd be willing to pledge bounty money for an implementation? Leave a note here so that people are not duplicating efforts. If there is a cool enough idea to warrant a bounty, especially if research is required. I would be required to use more processing power, and therefore incur more cost to themselves.
Problems
I'd like to see someone write a spam-trap@. I later contacted him on Jabber, and he validated my suspicions, adding that he only sees one piece of spam per week. I was impressed.
Concept
This technique of filtering may be circumvented if spammers start sending out messages with more randomization and scrambling. Additionally, if this filtering technique were to become popular, unforeseen loopholes would undoubtedly arise. In both cases, however, I am willing to pay that person $5-10 dollars. (I might pay more if they devise a new specification that is not vulnerable to the same flaw.)
A "successful solution, and I'm sure others would be willing to pledge bounty money for an implementation? Leave a note here to motivate potential developers. (Your pledge isn't binding, even though mine is.)
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