Ive hear a lot of complaing about spam, and the only solution Ive see is making laws specificly regarding spam, or taxing email... Ive thought about this subject quite a bit over the years, and one thing Ive noticed is that most spam is sent from disposable email accounts. Free accounts (like the ones yahoo.com, hotmail.com), and even some pay services (such as AOL) are abused to send this mail. If ISP's required some form of ID before getting an email account, I think we'd see a lot less spam. Obviously Spamming is profitable or it simply wouldnt exist, and with disposable email accounts so readily available spam is alway going to exist. So, Id recommed fining ISP's that cannot track down thier users when the users abuse the system.
Jamie On Tuesday 11 February 2003 11:42 am, Ben Barrett wrote: : On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 08:34, Bob Miller wrote: : > IAAMOAC. : : Right on, Bob -- it took me a few moments to track down this David Brin : saying/acronym... reminds me of Adbusters, which notably wrote about : Culture in an older issue, titling it "The Cult You're In" (so that : "Cult You're" sounds like culture). Civilization seems more like : something we cannot choose to belong to, but I think we have more : choices about the culture (or cult)... how about IAAMOALUG? = ) : : ciao, : : Ben : : PS - Yes, spam >sucks<. Can someone make them stop? : : : _______________________________________________ : Eug-LUG mailing list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- Let's call it an accidental feature. -- Larry Wall _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
