On Tuesday, Mar 18, 2003, at 09:16 Europe/London, John Rumpelein wrote:
The idea of battling spam by criminalizing it seems a little bit to me
like
leaving all your doors and windows open and trying to prosecute
everyone who
steals things out of your house. Sure, you might catch them all. (I
doubt
it, but OK.) You might even get your stuff back. But you're going to
spend
all your time doing that, when surely you have better things to do.
Why not
lock the doors and windows? We can do this by requiring strict
authentication.
Every legal restriction requires a technical solution too - breaking
into houses is illegal, but you don't leave your windows and doors
open. But you wouldn't want them to make it *legal* to break into
houses. The law is there as a deterrent, not as a perfect means of
stopping the crime.
Criminalising spam would have the effect of stopping the mainsleaze
spammers, while giving you an extra weapon in your battle against the
underground spammers. It would by no means stop spam, but then neither
do any of the current workable solutions either.
Matt.
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