Taking action against the manufacturers, wholesalers, service providers and financial transaction processors of products sold via spam is another matter. A few, relatively simple changes to the civil and criminal codes in the two major spam markets (US & EU) could probably shut down virtually all commercial spam.
1) Define personal email boxes/addresses as private property.
2) Explicitly state in law and regulation that selling products and services for resale to third parties who market via spam makes the manufacturer, wholesaler, service provider and transaction processor liable for that spam.
3) Establish substantial punitive civil fines for email trespass.
While spam comes from servers all over the globe, the products have national wholesale sources and services have national transaction processors (VISA, MasterCard and related banks). Without products to sell, spam isn't lucrative, it's pointless--and likely to dry up to a trickle.
On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 10:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
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