Jim Fleming wrote:
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame57.html
Is the person in that picture you, Jim?
(In case this is unclear, this is a rhetorical question, no reply solicited.)
Back to the topic: Perry has hit the nail on the head.
As another person with a moderately well-published mail address, I can attest
that the problem simply can no longer be ignored.
In Europe, spam (more precisely: automated unsolicited communications) will be
outlawed EU-wide on 2003-07-24 (IANAL).
That does not help with the large amount of Chinese, Korean, and US spam, though
(and Europe so far has not been a significant source of spam, anyway).
Maybe it *is* time to develop technical solutions that will assist the legal
ones being deployed.
It is certainly useful to think beyond mail, here -- automated unsolicited
communications on your IP-phone will be even more of a problem than with mail.
Gruesse, Carsten