Cyndi Norwitz writes: > There are two differences with email: 1) there are only spotty and poorly > enforced laws against junk email (in part because a lot of it is > international and/or hidden) and 2) sending snail mail, faxes, or phoning > all cost money--sending emails costs little to nothing, so there are > exponentially more of them.
No, there's another difference. (3) E-mail can be sent with almost no chance of identifying the sender. This means that the vendor can claim they're being set up at the same time they're spamming. About the only to handle this would be for police to conduct sting operations and make it risky to hire professional spammers running botnets. Hopefully this might also lead down the food chain to the botnets themselves. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
