Spam 2.0

Charles T. Booher ^ | June 18, 2003 | Charles T. Booher

[BioForce1]

Spam 2.0

Spam 2.0 is a product designed to improve and control spam in the email system.  The system has the following goals:

 

1. Reduce the amount of spam in the email pipeline
2. Increase the quality of the spam in the email pipeline
3. Give Spam recipients control over the products and services that they are spammed with
4. Give Spam recipients confidence that they are dealing with honest and ethical companies.

 

My goal with Spam 2.0 is not to abolish spam, but to create a new kind of spam whereby both customers are respected, and advertisers are cleared by both the customer and a chamber of commerce and law enforcement that seek to combat deceptive, unethical, unscrupulous, or criminal businesses that can advertise using spam.  Spam 2.0 is a product aimed at advertisers and not the general public.

 

Spam 2.0 Technical description:

1. There is a Spam 2.0 Patch for the Outlook, Outlook express and other email clients.
2. There is a new Spam 2.0 Server that works with the patched email client.

 

The Spam 2.0 Client

1. This client has one added button to identify a message as spam.
2. When a message is identified as spam the Spam 2.0 server gets a message to generate a new key set.
3. The Spam 2.0 client uses public key encryption and digital signatures routinely for all email between other clients.
4. The Spam client has a keeps of non-spam contacts, this list is queried whenever the spam 2.0 server is given a “I got Spam” message when the user pushes the Spam button on the Microsoft Outlook GUI.
5. All emails to other Spam 2.0 recipients need a public key and a digital signature.

 

The Spam 2.0 Server

1. Generates all public key pairs sending the private part to the mail receiver and the public part to a list of known recipients that come from the client.
2. The Spam 2.0 sender gives the public key when an identified user wishes gives his key to another spam 2.0 sender, keys are part of the email address, but the key to send to the recipient is controlled.  The Spam 2.0 server makes the decision, or the client can make the decision.
3. All Spam 2.0 messages are routed through the Spam 2.0 server and the digital signatures are checked, if the signatures are obsolete or fail they are dropped from the system.
4. When a user identifies a new spammer gets a users key then the user pushes the Spam button on his browser and a new key set is generated and the old keys are archived or destroyed. Everybody on the sender’s contact list gets the new key except the spammer.

 

How this system makes money

1. The customer and Spam 2.0 negotiate a fee bases on the quantity of spam that is most advantageous to the advertiser and amount the Spam 2.0 customer is willing to pay for the service.
2. A new high quality Spam channel is created and a chamber of commerce can be formed to keep out con artists, deceptive, unethical, and criminal business enterprises.  Feedback is sought from the advertising target, and the ads can be fine tuned to this customers needs.  The customer has an advertising environment that he can place more trust in.

 

Microsoft Are you listening?

[dark_lord]

How funny. The article itself is SPAM.

[darkwing104]

It is still SPAM!

[thoughtomator]

But it's high quality spam!

[new cruelty]

great, now we have some baloney to go with the spam!

[Callahan]

I'm am totally offended by this shameless plug. By the way, check out my website:

[bedolido]

I use McAfee's SpamKiller. Not that great. Works about 35% of the time. Nice if Orin Hatch gave us a way to send a "Kill-Harddrive" command back to the spammer.

[Callahan]

...or a left-wing troll!

[4mycountry]

[Callahan]

Who coined the term "Spam" for unwanted email anyway. I'm surprised Hormel doesn't demand royalties.

[4mycountry]

>>>Who coined the term "Spam" for unwanted email anyway.

I dunno. Probably cause it's like spam: it's gross, no one really likes it, and it's really nothing but waste.

Heheheh, just kiddin'. I think it's really an acronym for....something. Maybe someone else here can tell you.

[new cruelty]

I think Spam from Hormel was derived from the words Shoulder Pork and hAM. And I think Spam referring to email abuse derived from the Monty Python spam sketch.

[Nick Danger]

Who coined the term "Spam" for unwanted email anyway.

Monty Python, in this skit, have a waitress singing "spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam..."

Somehow that got applied to (originally) newsgroup messages that were the same thing, over and over and over. When the phenomenon appeared in email, the name went with it.

[new cruelty]

Per a quick search on Google: Here is a site that covers the subject in detail...Origin of the term "spam" to mean net abuse

[4mycountry]

Ohhhhhhh.

I thought it was something like "Selected Personal/Profitable Advertisement Mail". You know--SPAM!
I don't watch Monty Python, so I wouldn't know.