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Keeping Unwanted Guests Away, 1933

A description of a 1930s anti-spam doorbell

(Click to see larger version.) Seen on Bruce Schneier’s blog, where he discusses some problems with it, and compares it with e-mail spam, discussing briefly why this approach wouldn’t work with e-mail spam prevention.

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2007 by Micah.

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