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ETA on beta program?

Sun, 2006-05-28 16:45 — deronde

I've got very little programming experience, but I fully supported Blue Security and I'll completely support this program. I've got many contacts and would be more than happy to advertise your service and get more members to report spam. Some features I'd definitely like:

--ability to remove spam after it's been reported, this often did not work with the old BlueFrog in firefox.
--bandwidth throttling, to keep DSL connections from getting jammed, and allow users to dedicate more/less bandwidth when they want to.

Also, I have quite a few computers at my disposal.. I only have blue security on one of them, but if this is a P2P thing, technically you could just install this program on other computers without having to put in any personal information (like email address/password), and it could be used to send unsubscribe requests autonomously. This would also be helpful to people who'd like to help spam the spammers, but not actually have their spam reported.

Anyways... any approx date on when the first alpa/beta will be available?

Comments

Thu, 2006-06-01 07:07 — secondwheel

No beta for a little while yet

Hi -- I'm sure your help will be appreciated. It'll probably be a while before a beta is available; everything is still in the planning stages for now (though definitely making progress from what I can tell).

You won't be able to install this on spare computers and achieve anything, though -- it's not "spamming the spammers", it's basically just automating the legal opt-out process for each spam you personally receive. If you aren't getting & reporting spam, your computer won't run any opt-out scripts.

This is a pretty important point, actually -- Blue Frog's success was based heavily on the fact that it was totally legal, not some kind of spam-killer DDoS network. It didn't take down the spammers' sites (Okopipi won't either)... just forces them to do a lot of work sifting through the opt-out requests mixed in with their orders.

Cheers!

Sun, 2006-06-25 02:55 — fungus_b

Blue Frog's success

secondwheel wrote:

This is a pretty important point, actually -- Blue Frog's success was based heavily on the fact that it was totally legal, not some kind of spam-killer DDoS network.

"Success"?

Obviously some new usage of the word "success" that I was previously unaware of...

secondwheel wrote:

It didn't take down the spammers' sites (Okopipi won't either)... just forces them to do a lot of work sifting through the opt-out requests mixed in with their orders.
Cheers!

This process will be defeated by a simple "captcha".

The only reason spam sites don't have captchas yet is because they don't need them.