Vernon Schryver <vjs(_at_)calcite(_dot_)rhyolite(_dot_)com> wrote:
Spam identifies its perpetrator to its targets so that they can buy
whatever is being advertised. That identification is also sufficent
in court for people with a complaint agatinst the spammer.
If you have damages which match the legal definition of damages.
This is not a crackpot theory. Title 47, Section 221 of the U.S. Code
...
Doesn't apply to my spam problem.
Any spam received through an SMTP server that is not utterly broken
and lame has a Received header that accurately identifies the IP
address of a computer owned by at least one party that is at least
partly responsible for the spam.
The IP then resolves to an address in China, for the majority of
spam I'm seeing.
Hmm... I've got a contact at the Chinese embassy. I'm going to try
to talk with him about it.
Thus, there is no non-technical need for any more identification of
spammers than we already have.
The cost of going after them is still prohibitive for the average
individual or company. Even if they are traceable, the spammers hide
behind layers of shell corporations, all of which have been drained of
assets.
One solution would be to have a central organization which "buys"
the spam complaints from people. They could operate like a collection
agency, so that by buying complaints from 1000's of people, it would
be worth their time to go after the spammers.
This kind of agency is also known as the "government", or "police".
But in most cases, they've shown little interest in doing anything.
Alan DeKok.
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