Two interesting points that are raised by this article. First of all, the
companies benefiting from spam are large US companies that are liable to
legal measures. Second, the article has mentioned an importance of having
an audit trail for each lead. Within the consent framework if the language
for consent is standardized and the associated protocols are standards too,
it would be very easy to write a program for any of these large companies
to request the audit trail of a specific lead in the consent language
format, and then analyze it by a computer. As of now, these companies have
to analyze audit trails by hand and no one wants to spend extra money doing
so unless compelled by law. If a computerized way to do so is available,
then it would make things much easier.
Yakov
At 05:08 PM 8/9/2003, Peter Kay wrote:
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/940490.asp>http://www.msnbc.com/news/940490.asp
probably the best article I've read to-date that tells lays out the spam
business model. in short: it starts with a spammer who then sells a lead
to N layers of resellers and finally the lead lands, guess where: big
companies that we all know, who in and of themselves probably don't know
they are supporting spamming.
excellent writeup. don't miss it.
Paul: I think it would be valuable in the understanding phase, possiblly
section 2, to have a section linking to various articles that talk about
the economics of spam. Ultimately this is the root cause of the entire
spam problem and I don't think an R&D effort will be complete without this
rudimentary information.
Peter Kay, President
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<file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/Application%20Data/Microsoft/Signatures/www.titankey.com>www.titankey.com
>> The only technology that stops spam BEFORE it's even sent
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