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Date: Sat,  6 Dec 2014 20:12:17 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9 Atom - installation troubles
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> it's sort of the good fight, but life is short and spamming is too easy.
> so i built a few tools to go from 50,000 spams/day down to 0.2.  all
> the tools are published in 9atom.

I have different priorities and somebody needs to pick up the garbage
sometimes.  I'm being paid (just-just enough to keep me from having to
migrate back to a big city) to build some weaponry so spamming is a
little less rewarding.  Plan 9 is an excellent platform to develop on
and using Go means I can deliver the result on any platform my
principals may pick.

That the service runs faster than expected on Plan 9 (I'm withholding
the fact that it would run even faster on more conventional platforms,
I can honestly claim that I have not checked this) is good publicity
for Plan 9 and motivates me a little more.  If I get inspired to use
some Plan 9 paradigms that will give Plan 9 even more exposure, all
the better, but my efforts are a bit restricted at the moment because
Go takes some shedding of bad habits to acquire new (hopefully less
"bas") habits.

The final outcome may drift quite far from the currently very humble
beginnings.  Nupas and everything it gave birth to are definitely on
my list of tools I need to explore in my quest.

Lucio.

PS: my personal opinion is that there are sufficiently many and
sufficiently pissed off people out there to give each spammer some
pause for thought.  The tooling I'm concentrating on, rather than trim
traffic down, targets making spammers aware of the negative public
opinion their efforts generate, each spammer's identity being publicly
revealed.  Existing legislation is being leveraged to threaten
spammers, but more importantly to shelter the naming and shaming from
legal challenge.  All this requires active response to spamming,
rather than sweeping under the carpet action.  Of course, many think
this is pie-in-the sky stuff, but I am looking at it as empowering the
victims.