Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #3018 - 18 msgs
Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #3018 - 18 msgs
- Subject: Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #3018 - 18 msgs
- From: Richard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:07:36 +1000
- Organization: Faraday R&D
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Hi,
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I am planning to write a small application for Mac OS X that I want to put as
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a freeware. I am looking for some good ideas to start with. Any ideas are
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welcome?
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Thanks
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Sandeep Kanwal
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Here is an idea Sandeep,
I'll leave it up to others to find holes in it.
The background is that my email is no longer working
and I am using the biggest ISP in my country.
Their excuse is that the pre-Christmas spam
bombardment has crippled their system.
Now if it was Al Qaeda doing this they would sent in the SAS.
If it was the normal post service being
crippled in this manner the police would be knocking
on peoples door. But because it is the internet the legal system
seems to be paralysed.
So my posed solution is to fight back.
Imagine what would happen if every single
person responded to a spam email by downloading
the web site. I would expect the spammers web site would become
unusable. Then imagine everyone downloading the
same web site every 60 seconds.
So here is the idea. DontGetMadGetEvenWare.
A piece of software that runs in the background
and scans your email
spam box, extracts the URL of their web page
and then builds a list of URLs. It then
periodically downloads the web page
for each URL.
No doubt there will be some objections.
But my objection is that these people are stealing
band width I pay for, not the mention the cost
of sifting through my email in box.
Regards from Richard
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