I sent this initial response to Joel. Please cc him on any traffic here
since he's not currently on the list.
R's,
John
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:59:02 +0800 (CST)
From: John R. Levine <johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com>
To: Joel M Snyder <Joel(_dot_)Snyder(_at_)Opus1(_dot_)COM>
We are looking for short statements and pointers to work in the following
areas:
This stuff is all available (other than perhaps a useful list of anti-spam
products, since there's a vast number, mostly lousy) but it's a considerable
amount of work to pull it all together.
- current players (other than ISOC) in the policy-based anti-spam front. This
would include governmental and NGO policy groups helping to craft policy,
industry groups, etc. Anyone, in short, who is hoping to help write or
influence legislation, regulation, or policy regarding spam.
Hmmm. The OECD has a fairly good anti-spam framework which is getting old but
that they're starting to revise. I'd start with that.
- current anti-spam policies/legislation/regulation AND a statement of
evaluation. (e.g,, pointer to CAN-SPAM and an admission that it doesn't seem
to have done anything)
CAN SPAM hasn't been very useful, not so much because it's opt-out, but because
the effort to bring suit is enormous. The FTC has whacked some spammers,
there's been a handful of criminal and civil cases, but not a whole lot.
The EU's spam directive, which has been implemented to a greater or lesser
degree in all the member countries, has been pretty effective against spam
that's not wholly criminal. AU and NZ have pretty good laws, CA has a new one
based on the earlier ones.
The majority of spam these days is utterly illegal just about everywhere, sent
using stolen resources advertising fraudulent stuff. That doesn't so much need
new laws as it needs better coordination among law enforcement in various
countries, cooperation between network operators and LE as well as identifying
and dealing with a relatively small numbers of networks that are run for or by
crooks.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
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