On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:18:21AM -0700, Vernon Schryver wrote:
the SMTP client and. Unless your fax machine does caller-ID, you have
paid your telephone company for caller-ID, and the junk faxer is not
using any of the several tactics that turn off caller-ID (e.g. a PBX),
you will have no idea from where a junk fax comes. In practice, at
least one of those conditions is not met, and so you have no idea of
the source of any fax.
Maybe your problem is that the USA is not the world (at least not yet).
And also in the USA it should be possible to trace down a caller
with a calling trap.
In countries where you have a more telco centric (i.e. one telco)
infrastructure hunting down callers is rather easy.
So spammers may have no interest to change location to countries where
they can be more easily hunted down.
Abusing an open proxy in Korea (e.g.) is almost secure from any backtraces.
Besides the ISPs don't answer to anyone chances that they log/keep
IP connections and still have the data after a few weeks are zero.
\Maex
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