Lloyd Wood wrote:
On Sun, 25 May 2003, S Woodside wrote:
Good law could work to curtail spam. Spammers do it because it's
profitable. Remove the profit, fine the dickens out of the worst
transgressors, and the cost/benefit ratio will sink. Spamming isn't
like hacking, there is always a way to trace back to the person who is
paying for the spam because they must be able to sell their product.
Since you can identify the individuals responsible, you can hold them
accountable with the right laws in place.
and this has worked so well with the War on Drugs.
There is a difference here - the recipients want to see the flow stop,
so can be expected to participate in supression activities. This is not
to say this will be easy, but it's a matter of creating a suitable set
of conditions and in this case you can assign some part of the task
(e.g. reporting potential transgressions) to the recipients who want to
play...
- peterd
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