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title: Spam Wars
date: 2003-01-15
tags: ["Geek"]
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Later this week, a conference will begin at MIT to help in the technological war against spam.  ([Wired article](http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57190,00.html))  They will be discussing how both the law and technology can work together to stop the problem.  This is a good thing, but I did have a quite scary thought when reading this article.

What happens when the spammers build their messages with some stupid "encoding" scheme, then sue the anti-spam software developers under the DMCA?  ick.  I hope they don't read that.