I am a little afraid to mention one thing I do with spam since I
agree there is not a magic bullet. Nor do I think that any government
agency has the wherewithall to handle it. But I do note that in the
USA the Federal Trade Commission encourages people to send
examples of spam to them. I do so in my filters in the hope that
at least it will help indicate the severity of the problem. I automatically
forward spam to uce(_at_)ftc(_dot_)gov in the hope that it will raise awareness
of how seriously spam is affecting the use of email.
Article: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/04/spam.htm
On 8/13/2002 at 7:52 PM Dave Crocker wrote:
|>It is a difficult problem and I don't have a magic bullet, but I think
|>that things can be done. The root of the problem is economic. Spam is
|>about five or six orders of magnitude cheaper the paper junk mail for
|>the sender.
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|Once we get past the various notes that observe how serious the problem
|is,
|most attempts at solution in fact DO seek a magic bullet. A single
|mechanism that will "fix" the problem.
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