Bob Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >Bob Crandell wrote: > >> I'm not for Screw The Establishment(TM). I am against government >> involvement, of any kind. > >The problem is that today, there is no penalty for spamming. If you >successfully block one kind of spam, the spammer is free to try again >to find a way around your block. That's fine for the spammer -- he's >providing value for his customers with ever-harder-to-block messages. >But it's not fine for you -- you waste a lot of time trying to block >spam, your daughter wants to enlarge her penis, you can't find your >legitimate email under the mountain of scams, and your ISP is >struggling to provide bandwidth to handle all that spam. > >I have a friend who runs an ISP (other than EFN). He says 60% of his >total bandwidth is spam. I don't doubt it. > >The problem isn't going to go away on its own. The volume of spam is >increasing fast. The cost of spam is 99.9% borne by the recipient and >his ISP. There's a tremendous demand, from both legitimate businesses >and scam artists, for unlimited free advertising, no matter how low >the sell-through rate is. There is no limit on how much spam we'll >eventually see, unless we change the system somehow. > >But if there were a way to punish spammers, so that once they're >caught sending spam they get hurt, the volume of spam would go down. >Just like the volume of junk FAXes went down once there was a law that >fined the sender. > >Punishment either comes from the government or from vigilantes. If >you're so strongly opposed to any kind of government that you prefer >vigilante justice, then we can agree to disagree. If you're saying >that spam isn't a problem, or that it's a problem we can live with, or >that there's a technical solution, then we have to keep arguing. > >IAAMOAC. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
I don't really want to argue about it. Stopping SPAM has been argued alot. My thought is that SPAMers are using technology to create a problem therefore we should use technology to frustrate their efforts. No technology and no government oppression is going to stop SPAM just like it didn't stop junk FAX. Even though I said that government involvement is worse than SPAM, that doesn't mean SPAM is good. The "Don't even think about it" list should contain: Government Involvement SPAM Vigilante Justice Fighting fire with fire is good. Using one wrong to battle another wrong isn't. See you. _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
