Sam wrote:
>It would help a lot. A US law could prohibit all ISPs located in the US
>from accepting email messages from ISPs located in countries that aren't
>serious about stopping spammers.
I assume you mean ban *all* traffic from the outside - you can not verify
the packages to see if they are mails on such a high level. That's just as
China is trying to prevent certain sites to be visited - they can't check
each and every page as it is downloaded. Well one could but there aren't
fast enough computers to do that on a national basis yet - and will
probably never be (traffice increases more than computer power).
a. Really slow down the Internet (mainly between Europe and Asia).
b. Make the US closed to the outside world (and the other way around) - I
bet many companies would love that.
So either the ISPs (that handle the external connections) would ignore this
law, or the InterNet as we know it would die.
Atleast the problem with running out of IPs would be slowed down for the
time being ;-)
>With sanctions such as those being imposed by an ovewhelming majority of the
>member states of the world-wide community, then almost all nations of the
>world would soon follow up on going along with my proposed international
>efforts to enact and enforce anti-spamming laws.
You are missing the fact that the US is only one country.
Such a law would be just as stupid and useless as the one against
companies, in *other* countries, to export to (for instance) Cuba.
Sanctions work _if_ a majority is on it from the begining and if it's
against a selected ammount of countries. By making a sanction against all
countries the US would in reality make them sanction *you*.
A law in the US could stop US companies from *sending* spam - and perhaps
make other countries follow, but the US aren't allmighty and will not be
able to push a law like the one you mention onto the rest of the world.
