Again, the best being made the enemy of the good.
Notice tho that these countries you mention do participate in systems
such as long-distance telephony and int'l package and mail delivery.
So obviously some sort of pressure can be brought to bear, for
starters, if they won't comply then they may find themselves either
cut-off or severely firewalled.
How well do you think it'd work if, for example, all of China tomorrow
decided to only talk to the rest of the net using DECnet protocols? Or
even protocols of their own invention?
etc.
On April 25, 2004 at 15:16 millenix(_at_)zemos(_dot_)net (Philip Miller) wrote:
Zorya wrote:
This one is for those of you who will respond at every opportunity
about how spammers will just move off-shore as disproof of any hope
for a legal approach to the problem, over and over and over and over,
demanding the criticism be responded to, over and over and over and
over and over, as if it were a coup de grace:
Barry,
First, let me state that I agree with the principle of your post. I, too,
think that rigorous law enforcement of all relevant statutes against
spammers could have a large effect on the volumes of spam seen on the
Internet. The best example of this would be the amazing disappearance of
South Korean-originating messages after they put strong laws into place.
However, there are two qualities of copyright infringement enforcement that
are not (yet) present when dealing with spam:
1. There are no strong, lobbying corporate interests pushing for stringent
regulations and harsh action. On the contrary, some of the big lobbyists
oppose strong anti-spam laws in the U.S.
2. Some of the biggest spamming countries (traditionally, China is cited as
the best example) have no interest in cooperating in cracking down on their
'local entrepreneurs'. China is also notably absent from the list of
countries involved in the action you linked to.
Take a look at BBC's reportage of this event:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3651749.stm>. From the bottom of that
article, the participating nations were
... Belgium, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary,
> Israel, the Netherlands, Singapore and Sweden.
When we can get some of the large American and European ISPs on board to
lobby for enforcement action, we may yet see news like this about anti-spam
raids. Specifically, we'd want to see AOL, EarthLink, MSN, Comcast,
RoadRunner, Wanadoo, & BT. Concerted pressure from that crowd would have a
*HUGE* impact. Until then, I think ad-hoc filtering and small, directed
technical measures (I'm thinking LMAP here) will be the order of the day.
Philip Miller
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