On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:49:56PM -0700, Vernon Schryver wrote
I claim that the anti-spam-forgery laws have already caused far
less spam to have forged sender addresses than a few years ago and
instead carry throw-away, drop-box addresses.
Wrong. More "Joe Jobs" (ala Joe's BBS) than ever. What's happened
is that (as an anti-spam measure) ISPs have startedi to reject email
with MAIL FROM: that doesn't resolve as a valid domain.
- some of the money will go to...
..the DEA to finance an effort to track down the source of the stuff
you're smoking<g>. Let's be realistic. A lot of the current spam is
*ALREADY* blatantly illegal. It's advertising bestiality, child porn,
pyramid schemes, prescription drugs (across state lines too) without a
physical exam by a doctor, 419 == counselling participation in a
money-laundering scheme, pump-n-dump stock touting, etc, etc. And in
many cases they're making illegal unauthorized use of other people's
systems (open relays/proxies) to send out the spam in the first place.
Given that the spammers are *ALREADY* breaking tons of laws and are
already criminals, can you realistically expect that adding one more
count to an indictment is going to scare off spammers ?
And unless the US blocks incoming emails that aren't paid for, spam
will follow mainline industry and move offshore.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes(_at_)waltdnes(_dot_)org>
An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will
eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure,
and has a lower TCO, than linux.
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