In message <AA599EFD-D990-4FE6-9718-139D8EF6E1E6(_at_)nominum(_dot_)com>, Ted
Lemon writes:
On Nov 19, 2013, at 5:59 PM, Mark Andrews <marka(_at_)isc(_dot_)org> wrote:
If you don't want spam the first thing you need to do is make it
illegal to send unsolicted commercial email both from within a
country to anywhere and to the country regardless of where it is
sent from.
We have an existence proof that this is the wrong way to approach the
problem: the RIAA and the MPAA. The disaster this has wreaked upon the
Internet is biblical in proportion. More laws about content on the
Internet is the last thing we need.
Given I was talking about spam I don't see how content is relevent.
A much better solution to this would be at layer five, by just refusing
unmoderated email from people you don't know. We already have the
protocol tools to do this-what we lack are implementations.
Which kind of defeats one the purposes of having a email address.
Some classes of unsolicited/unmoderated email is to be expected.
Go read the Australian spam laws for examples.
Do you get a "free pass" if you have a unsubscribe link? Under
Australian law it is required to be there but it doesn't save you
from being prosecuted. Under the US CAN-SPAM act it appears that
you do get a "free pass".
Is reporting spam to authorities easy. In Australia it is as easy
as resending the message to
"report(_at_)submit(_dot_)spam(_dot_)acma(_dot_)gov(_dot_)au". The
result database is mined and prosecutions result.
Mark
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