Fighting image spam [LWN.net]

Fighting image spam

Posted Aug 24, 2006 10:02 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (subscriber, #774)
In reply to: Fighting image spam by NAR
Parent article: Fighting image spam

1. Some hard work (like copy&paste and then clicking on a button) is a nice addition to the air-bubbling activities PR agents are doing most of the time.
2. In most of the cases, either or both of the two parties participating in PR announces (the sender & the receipinet) get some cash as a result. A tiny part of it probably justifies fighting the spam if email submission is a must (which I'm still not sure about).
3. PR is the last thing I'd worry about. The lwn's email you mentioned initially as an example is actually used for any comment submission, which in 99.99% are not PR, I believe.

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Fighting image spam

Posted Aug 24, 2006 17:21 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

It was an *example*. There are thousands of others just like it. And, you appear to hold PR people in very low esteem.

Fighting image spam

Posted Aug 24, 2006 19:35 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (subscriber, #774) [Link]

> It was an *example*.

Give a better one then.

> And, you appear to hold PR people in very low esteem.

Yes, I do. At least those who tend to post their releases to a huge amount of emails (otherwise doing it from web forms wouldn't take too much time anyway).