-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05-Sep-2002/18:17 -0500, Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Anthony E. Greene wrote: >> The govt could help in this case. Something simple like requiring valid >> return addresses and honoring requests for removal would go a long way. >> Enabling recipients and ISPs to sue would also help. Most of these clowns >> are spamming to make money. The best way to affect their behavior is to >> affect their profits. > >That might work...if all the spammers were based here in the States.
...or based in the same country as the recipient, and assuming that country has anti-spam laws similar to what I described. Of course there are lots of cross-jurisdiction spammers, but it's a lot easier to get people to send you money if you're in the same country. If you could just reduce the spam from the ones in the same country as the recipient, that would help a lot. ISPs are drowning in spam. Many users are too. The only real solution is to increase the cost of sending spam. Enabling recpients and ISPs to sue is a way to do that. It's not perfect, but we don't need perfection. A significant improvement will do just fine. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene 0x6C94239D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iD8DBQE9d+2+pCpg3WyUI50RAp9NAJ0UDY6OewGbn72vhcSwJLZvOEmsZwCg2F3y f93xeqiPiCTyTX/RHOxjjuY= =kD9d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
