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From: <gep2(_at_)terabites(_dot_)com>
To: <asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 8:49 AM
Subject: [Asrg] Re: Usefulness of wholesale blocking of attachments for
SMTP? (Lane Sharman et al)
I'm going to combine my comments regarding several related posts on this
thread.
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The best way ultimately to put a serious dent in spam (and worms/viruses)
is for
it to be perceived as largely futile. And if 99.99% of the junk (or more)
never
even gets delivered to a human being, this has got to help achieve that.
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I suspect that many spammers are the people who buy what appears to be
spam-in-a-box software packages offered in late-night infomercials.
If the legal system can't go after the people who are selling the
spam-in-a-box products, perhaps under the category of Truth in Advertising
the TV stations who air the infomercials can be required to add warning
announcements to the effect that, "The following product is used for sending
unsolicited commercial email, commonly known as spam."
Jed Margolin
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