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Re: Spam

2003-05-30 13:20:55

on 5/30/2003 2:17 PM John Stracke wrote:
Paul Vixie wrote:

if we could make spamganging so illegal that they were eventually
not replaced, then their traffic would be replaced by bulk e-mail from every
customer of every CRM (customer relationship management) company in the world.

I'm not sure why this follows.  Wiping out the fraudulent spammers would 
take a War On Spam, with massive levels of propaganda to stir up public 
opinion enough to justify the money it would cost.  In that kind of 
environment, even in the aftermath, no white hat would dare spam; their 
customers would immediately turn against them.

The way to avoid that kind of blow-back against legitimate use is through
documented innocence (saving the explicit opt-in confirmation).

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