{"id":188,"date":"2004-06-22T12:49:53","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T18:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2004-06-22T12:49:53","modified_gmt":"2004-06-22T18:49:53","slug":"how-to-end-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2004\/06\/how-to-end-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"How to end spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today several of the big email providers said that they back a proposal to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/front\/2641197\">cut off spam-sending machines from the internet<\/a>.  This is a fine a dandy idea (more new business for me when folks call needing their machines fixed), but it seems to me a better way of approaching things would be, instead of trying to track down and prosecute the spammers, to go after those who pay the spammers&#8230;the idiots who advertise in this fashion.  All the spam mails have an eventual physical destination (they have to get their money somehow); these are the folks that need to be taken out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today several of the big email providers said that they back a proposal to cut off spam-sending machines from the internet. This is a fine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-32","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}