Last part first. Only smart spammers monitor these sorts of forums.
The dumb ones are only a minor annoyance and so easy to stop they often go
unnoticed. Only when they fall into a herd and all begin sending the same
SPAM message, do you usually hear anyone complain.
<RANT>
As for law suits, it all depends on who you block. It's all a grey area
and that is where lawyers make their money, defining what the law is and how
it is applied. Both MAPS and ORBS were taken to court over the issue of
what was SPAM and what was legitimate commercial advertising. The double
opt-in list is pretty much the standard for netiquette aware businesses, but
the majority of business is not netiquette aware. The business model is
usually to look at the internet as an electronic version of the postal
system (snailmail). The difference is in which end is paying for it. In
the US unlimited access at low monthly rates means that SPAM has less of a
financial impact that it does in countries where internet access is billed
on a per minute basis. As an ISP we have had to explain this to innumerable
otherwise legitimate and well meaning business types. I still believe that
a number of them still don't grasp the concept that If I am paying for my
Email service directly (after all we all do pay for postal services, either
in postage or in taxes), I want to control it. The other issue is that
while the post office will hold excess mail if you box is not big enough to
hold all that you receive, Email does not.
The SPAM situation is only going to get worse for un filter/protected
Email servers/users. But as long as there is money in it the spammers will
keep on sending as much as they can. I think the key is to educate the
business types that provide the funding, without the money end of it the
Spammers will go looking some where else to make a quick buck.
</RANT>
Kevin Childers
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael E. Middleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 10:06 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] rules.ima
> > I believe this was mentioned in the distant past. I think the issue was
> > raised about possible repercussions from the owners of blocked domains.
I
> > think a general fear of having a lawsuit killed the idea.
>
> Huh? I don't have to let any other network touch or interact with my
> network. That's my choice. I don't have to accept E-mail from anyone
> anywhere. Spammers are theives of bandwidth, CPU cycles, and time. They
have
> no rights as far as I'm concerned. I ain't scared of no lawsuit. My only
> concern is that spammers can look at our rules and adjust their stuff to
get
> around them... and if y'all don't think spammers monitor these forums,
wake
> up.
>
> Mike
>
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