On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Bob Miller wrote:
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> The problem is that today, there is no penalty for spamming.,,
I totally agree. SPAM is killing me. The majority of my mail on
several accounts is SPAM. I block some of it, but I may be blocking
important messages. I'm buried in SPAM to the point that I have missed
job and consulting offers, which have cost me money. Fortunately,
I have never lost a large project over this sort of thing.
On the other hand, I fear laws and rules regarding SPAM.
What is SPAM? I mean the other day I spent out 9 postings to people
I have never met asking about consulting opportunities. These were
targeted to people in key positions in a certain field and each posting
was slightly personalized, but they weren't very different.
Is this SPAM? I could agree either way. Should this type of activity
be illegal? I don't think so. I sent these manually. Would it be
SPAM if I automated the process and sent it to 9 people? How about if I
sent this posting to 25,000 people or 250,000,000 people? The point is
SPAM would be hard to define for legal purposes.
I have several friends who run very tight reverse address checks to
block SPAM. They only allow incoming mail from the ip of the MX
record of the FROM domain. Unfortunately, I have trouble sending them
mail they want, because like many others I send mail from a different
machine than I use to recieve mail. I suppose I could relay off of
the proper machine, but this has draw backs as well. In any case,
these friends attempts to block SPAM have blocked some of their friends
and customers as well.
Sometimes, I think you can't win for trying.
>
> 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....
I have heard this figure before, but I don't believe it.
60% of all mail may be SPAM, but most mail messages are short.
The vast majority of the internet's bandwidth is probably used for
web surfing or else pirating music and movies and passing pornographic
images around.
Sincerely,
David Mandel
Chief Activist
Portland Linux/Unix Group
1440 NE 59th
Portland, Oregon 97213
(360) 260-2066 at work
(541) 730-5285 cell
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