Maybe the part of your brain that regulates breathing can also filter out “fuck” in your otherwise brilliant posts — they’d be better for it, and, as another commenter pointed out, could be used in classes, etc.

Just a suggestion. Swear away if that’s what you want.

There are wanna-be-admin anti-spam kooks out there
who think they’ve found the Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam
Problem (FUSSP) http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html
by hitting the innocent people and rejecting their mail. So thanks to
these guys you have to fight spammers and anti-spammers at the same
time. http://caffeine.yi.org/

So Jason is judging the situation right: there is no FUSSP and the
sooner you realize the better.

Of course you can do much against spam, but think before you do it
and at least you should know what “false positive”. If you don’t handle
this with care you might kill internet communication.

If any solution works you need a whole bunch of methods to prevent spam
and to filter spam.
I hope that Jason’s bounces are on SMTP level, because if you accept a
mail and send it back as a regular e-mail bounce it costs you double
bandwidth and you might be abused as reversed spam relay by sending
spam to faked sender addresses.

About form spam: often forms are checked by spammers if they can be
abused for spam relaying, because the PHP mail command is vulnerable.
But they post things anyway and there must be even individual spammers
trying to abuse even handwritten scripts. If you don’t program with
care and the possibility of abuse in your mind, you’re lost.
Fortunately with forms the power is on your (server) side.

So it’s a constant never ending fight. There are two major rules for me:
- avoid false positives, but if they can occur take care of them
- avoid end-of-pipe solutions, fight the cause by not the symptom

BTW it’s really difficult to post a comment here.