Since spam can come from anywhere, what good would it do to enact national laws?
It would get rid of some at least, and the more countries that took action (against spammers only; I wouldn't want gummints to start interfering with the net), the fewer elsewhere to muck us around.
The spam laws are a joke. They simply encourage spammers to invest more better software.
As long as spam is lucrative, it will remain a problem.
I decided to see how much I got this month, though I started a day late! Anyway since the 2nd (or midnight on the 1st depending on how you look at it) I have recieved 1049 spams, which I tink is about 50 a day or so.
Not bad. I've only gotten 1789 spams since Jan 1. 7,311 KB.
50/day is an awful lot. What have you done to get yourself on so many lists?
Have you been sending bogus bounce messages? Have you been clicking on "Remove Me" links? Have you been loading graphics from within your email application? ...those are the three main ways you announce your positive existance to spammers. It promotes you to the .01 list almost immediately!
The thing I don't understand is why the spammer actually want to target people like me still. That is people who will never respond to any or it. Seems stupid to me.
If spammers had any brains they wouldn't be spamming...
Spamming is *very* lucrative. There are millions of dollars to be made.
Have you heard about Spam Vans?
Spam should indeed be criminalised, but what should the penalty be? I think the only fait punishment would be having "spammer" branded on the forehead ;-)
Start by levying a hefty fine against the jerks that reply to the spam.
FWIW, there are really only two "solutions" to spam.
1) Eliminate the market. If people would simply not respond to the spam, spammers would find something better to do. Ya right.
2) Modify the SMTP protocols to include full traceability. The IETF is working on this, but even if they finalized the protocol today, it would take a number of years for the thousands of SMTP servers to be upgraded. THEN spam restriction laws could be enacted and enforced[*].
[*] This still doesn't address the jurisdictional issues. eg person in Bolivia spams user in the US by way of a server in Tuvalu...
- Dan.
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