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A Plan for Spam – Paul Graham (paulgraham.com)
3 points by verdverm on Sept 2, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I recalled the PG has written about spam as I see increasing numbers of HN spam posts and accounts over time, like these

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28396918

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28396909


Paul Graham proceeded to develop an open source filtering application called PopFile based on this document. I've been using Popfile since forever to filter my spam.

https://getpopfile.org/




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