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• Lessig-influenced presentation style – "law professors get paid based on the number of slides produced"
• CAN-SPAM removes individual rights to sue spammers, one thing that's really been effective so far. not good news
• proposes a new meta tag: no-email-collection
• cute cat photo!
• missing a huge chunk of the spam pipeline; we're focussing on the proxy-to-recipient part of the chain. focus on the address scraping!
• definition of spam: hard. but harvesting email addresses: everyone agrees that's a no-no

• Wiki Markup
  <meta name="no-email-collection" terms="\[url of terms page\] />

• http://www.unspam.com/noemailcollection
• project honeypot: like my script – email cookie addresses for scrapers
• create subdomains for honeypots and point them at Unspam's server! they'll collect the data
• generating a public corpus!
• code licensed under GPL
• http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ , http://www.unspam.com/
• q: "scraping through zombies?" a: yes, but that'll increase potential costs for spammers (hmm)
• q: "two classes of spammer lists: resold email addrs as well as scraped"? yes, but getting one class is useful
• q: "can a meta tag be enforceable? is a clickwrap license legally viable when it occurs between two computers?" a: if it's a community norm, that can improve legal viability; also CAN-SPAM specifically forbids scraping; also it may cause the spammer to think twice about this
  

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