It's illegal to send UBE (unsolicited bulk e-mail) here in the states, but that doesn't stop people from finding loopholes in the FCC regs or spoofing source addresses and IPs. If the post office didn't track where mail came from/went, you could put any return address on an envelope and no one would ever know it wasn't accurate. Heck, you might still be able to do that in some cities. Spamming has become a science of high marketing and sneaky technology all in itself. Your e-mail address only needs to be in one spot, on one scannable e-mail/web page/Usenet post/forum posting, to become shared with millions of marketing databases around the world. After using my e-mail address to sign up for a (opt-out only, as I finally found out) software tool, I began getting hundreds of spam e-mails a day. I won't name the source or time it happened. I had to change my address. Everytime you carelessly use your e-mail address, your exposure to the 'spam net' is increased and reaffirmed. Sometimes, you don't have a choice but to give in to get something you really want. Then, you should use a disposable address or forwarding alias.
If you can trace the spam to a specific source that does not have a publicly posted opt-in/opt-out disclaimer and/or a publicly posted privacy policy(say that 3 times real fast..LOL), you could easily win damages in a U.S. court. Unfortunately, with the insecurity of e-mail and the inherent lack of validation on spam e-mail servers' part, any smart spammer can make it impossible to determine where the e-mail came from. Or worst, make it look as though another company sent it. We get complaints about that daily and there is *nothing* we can do about that, except try to make the victim understand. That pisses me off the most. There are *way too many* 'loose' e-mail servers on our backbones. All that's required to cut spam in at least half, is for all relaying e-mail servers to perform a reverse DNS lookup on the from e-mail address. It can be compared with the IP of the host sending it, before the e-mail relayed. I'll take spam in my inbox all day long, over having our company name slandered by some shmuck sending viruses and spam(which is illegal - yet it can't be proven). How many people are really going to spend $ and time to correctly identify and take a company or organization to court over spam? It's a catch 22. We won't fight it legally, yet we bitch about it constantly and point fingers at our service providers. Even with their spending and effort, the war is still far from over. The only real way to win, is to stop using e-mail. I'll step of the spam box now.. Glen http://picksource.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of LeRoi Keiller > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 6:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [U2] spammed > > > Well, on my side of the fence, it's good to see that Australia is > finally clamping down on [locally produced] spam. I have the > impression it's virtually illegal now. (Perhaps someone could > confirm this.) > > I still wonder why governments around the globe didn't put a stop > to spam long ago. My 2c. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Allen E. Elwood > (CA) > Sent: Tuesday, 21 September 2004 7:30 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [U2] spammed > Importance: Low > > > And just got one to my email address that I use for this list from > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the subject "Re:Is that your password". > Deleted without opening. Wasted bandwidth.......however Time Warner is > coming out tomorrow to upgrade my cable connection to 3mbps. So who cares > about a couple of spams :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of gerry > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:37 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [U2] spammed > > > that's the one > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Allen E. Elwood (CA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:43 pm > Subject: RE: [U2] spammed > > > > NET*SKY.*P and Net*sky.*P I got this morning on the address I > use for this > > list. (asterisks added to avoid getting filtered away into the bit > bucket) > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of gerry > > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 08:13 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [U2] spammed > > > > > > i just received a viral mail delivery notification notice sent > to my email > > address that is used solely for the u2 list and absolutely nothing else. > > anyone else get this ? > > > > gerry > > ------- > > u2-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > > ------- > > u2-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
